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FROM YOUTH TO PARADISE 



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PREFACE. 

IN giving this book to the public it is the intention 
of the author that the coming generation shall 
have their eyes open to the true state of facts as pro- 
duced from nature and not walk blindly in obscure 
by-paths as their fathers have done before them. 
All the laws of nature when analyzed are found to 
be perfect and open to all mankind. When we trust 
them we find they are true; we violate them either 
through ignorance or intention and we suffer the pen- 
alty; we fail to master them and the loss is complete. 

In analyzing nature's laws I find nothing to base 
transmigration upon. Experience has taught me that 
man can turn into a tiger, but I find no basic foun- 
tain reversing the rule in man's development through 
progeniture. 

Our successes are enjoyed by others, our failures 
we bear alone. Nature has given us a body of great 
physical strength, but we are told by our superiors 
that we are without experience and must listen to 
older trained minds, while we know that all should 
think for themselves, to build the mind up in har- 



mony with the body. When the mind becomes 
strong enough to be master, the abuses of the body 
cease. 

Some fiction has been added to these pages to 
induce us to cultivate our minds for the purpose of 
preparing them for the great struggle in the world 
theatre, conducted by brute force over mind. We 
are needed in the mental army now forming for the 
purpose of restoring reason, join it now, and may 
these pages assist you in your proficiency. 

These thoughts are given with a kindly feeling 
to all mankind and my best wishes for a higher 
civilization. 

H. F. Stevenson. 



CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 

I. Is a nation justitied in war except to 

protect its people ? 1 

II. The soldier's dream. ..... 15 

III. Impressed with effulgence of love. . 36 

IV. We learn through mental science how 

to build the body. ..... 48 

V. The development of our progenitors. . 75 

VI. Reviewing the process of turning animal 

life to the use of man. .... 89 

VII. Earth's historic panorama 97 

VIII. Seeing mankind climb up the rungs to 
to the broad fields of religion by many 
shrines 118 

IX. The black man's struggle with civiliza- 
tion 180 

X. The dawn scenes before the awakening. 219 



March on ! march on ! toward paradise, 

For you have a very long way to go, 

You may miss your opportunity to the city eternal, 

By bayonets, shrapnel and gore breaking your radio. 



THE SOLDIER'S DREAM 



IX 



CHAPTER I. 



IS A NATION JUSTIFIED IN WAR EX- 
CEPT TO PROTECT ITS PEOPLE ? 



The occurrence was at mid- 
night. In the wet trenches a gun- 
ner lay on a battlefield, waiting 
for the order from the command 
to commence the operation of his 
gun, it was a deadly weapon, a 
machine gun of the latest type 
which could exterminate any 
enemy within range. Many a 
man had received such orders be- 
fore this and many others will 
receive them this night, of such 
is cruel war. 

He shifted his position in the 
mud and water to better his view 
as the night was extremely dark. 



Having satisfied himself that he 
could overlook the enemy's posi- 
tion, he adjusted his field glasses 
to his eyes and with the assistance 
of the great searchlight (behind 
him, could see the enemy's line. 
He could see a movement in the 
line, a movement which convinced 
him that the enemy was march- 
ing in the distance toward him, 
massed in solid formation, mov- 
ing without a wabble, man to man. 
The gunner arose and spoke as to 
himself. As he laid his hand upon 
the gun he said to it, "art thou 
ready for the death slaughter, 
thou who has been invented by 
man to limit death in war, or shall 
I find this a fallacy? Are men 
yet but savage beasts howling for 
the blood of their kind? If this 
be so may I defend this attack as 
from an assault of wild beasts, 



may my eyes be clear, my hand 
steady and my range perfect, for 
it is possible that love has melted 
in the hearts of men and the gall 
ducts are wide open, throwing 
rancor poison through his system, 
turning him into a raving savage 
with all the bitter hate of a de- 
mon. Is there no way whereby 
man can be turned back into the 
right road for his own benefit and 
for others? 

All the others of the gun squad 
lay asleep with their equipment 
on, resting in the wet trenches. 
May their rest be long, bad as it is, 
under the loving care of an angel 
who directs and guides the eleva- 
tion of mankind from his lowly 
estate to the perfect man, and 
through this influence prepares 
them for the conflict which may 
decide the fate of nations. May 



the decision, whatever it may be, 
terminate for the right. He lis- 
tened and heard the howl of the 
jackal and could see the glisten of 
the wings of the air scavengers 
as they hung over the darkened 
heavens. His teeth were tightly 
set as if to receive a blow from 
some mighty hand. The icy beads 
stood upon his face. Every mus- 
cle in his big six feet of body stood 
drawn to their utmost tension 
and as hard as Bessemer steel. 
The boom of the big guns the ter- 
rific fusillade of the monster 
projectiles, the deadly shrapnel 
bursting overhead, were suffi- 
cient warning of the coming 
events. The gunner examined 
his gun with great care and 
waited the call to make ready, 
would it never come, was there 
some mistake? Was it possible 



that the command had overlooked 
the movement of the enemy? No, 
he could now hear the buzz in the 
distance of the war autocars, 
loaded with the infantry, whir- 
ring like mad toward the front. 
Through his glass he could now 
see the enemy in mass formation 
coming on and on, every fibre of 
his body was tense, almost to 
parting. He lifted his hands and 
turned his eyes toward heaven 
and said: 

"Oh God — Hear this my nightly 
prayer. Thou who has estab- 
lished fixed and divine laws which 
man must obey or remain an in- 
definite time without the portal of 
Heaven, even after death until 
his submission. As I stand to- 
night away from home, may I be 
under thy care, and within the 
radius of thy power. May thy 



wisdom fall over me like a 
friendly covering mantle, and in- 
vest me with the power of correct 
solution of right from wrong. To- 
night I stand in a country, far 
from my native land, fighting for 
a cause I believe to be for the 
right. The protection of civilized 
man. The family, father, mother 
and children. Jesus said: 'Suffer 
little children, and forbid them 
not to come unto me: for such is 
the kingdom of heaven/ Is it not 
a trust upon all christian mankind 
to protect the children in their 
earthly homes; to protect them 
with might as their natural guar- 
dians? If I am wrong, let my eyes 
be opened through Thy divine 
wisdom. I pray thee that this 
night I shall not violate the teach- 
ings of Jesus, who further said: 
'Thou shalt do no murder/ Dear 



God — I am confused and blinded. 
I knowest my way only through 
my own heart. Sometimes I feel 
sure and at other times I doubt, 
has the race of men themselves 
really improved in moral and in- 
tellectual capacity during the 
many centuries which have 
passed since they were savage? 
Is man within the element that 
controls him, a cruel brute, re- 
strained only by a pack-thread of 
civilization and custom which 
bind him and which he may snap 
asunder at any moment, showing 
himself for what he actually is? 
Oh, no, something within me re- 
volts at the thought. Man with- 
in has inherited a spark of thy 
intellect. It may be small: but it 
is a sufficient germ, growing into 
and becoming a part of the uni- 
versal wisdom and uniting with 



many others of its kind. I do not 
believe in the inferiority of man. 
I realize the qualities in different 
individuals are not alike and vary 
at different periods of their life. 
I believe the germ-plasm in the 
individual possesses the power 
and develops to an upward tend- 
ing to the better man. I believe 
the cultured savage is not a civil- 
ized man, he is a cultured savage 
and nothing more. If he violates 
Thy divine laws, he must suffer 
thq penalty. From this conclu- 
sion, I reason I am justified, as a 
civilized man to defend with all 
my power the homes of those who 
are of the 'kingdom of heaven/ 

"I pray Thee for Thy blessing 
upon all mankind, family, friends 
and Thy servant. Have them all 
guided by Thy angels, in this 
their earth work and when fin- 



ished in this life to Thy kingdom 
of heaven. May I tonight possess 
the love taught by Jesus our Sa- 
vior and may it be in control of 
my actions. I ask Thy blessing. 
Amen." 

"He prayeth best that loveth best, 
All things, both great and small : 
For the dear God, who loveth us, 
He made and loveth all." 

And when he had made an end 
of praying, he said to himself: 
you can not love your country and 
hate your fellow man, you can not 
love your own race and despise 
others. 

Then he looked and the enemy 
had covered half the distance be- 
tween the lines. His prayer had 
gained for him composure, per- 
fect respiration, a moist skin, 
bright and clear eyes. Every cell 



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in his body was high in exubera- 
tion. All intelligence throughout 
the man made quick response: he 
realized that God can make the 
most of body, mind and heart. 
This scientific method he recog- 
nized as the one mode of discern- 
ing or discovering truth. 

The electric ions or electrones 
revolving in the heavenly ether 
about him responded in perfect 
harmony with the body of the 
man, even the tingling of the 
finger tips, making the man alert 
and full of energy. As the enemy 
crawled up, snuffing the lines like 
dogs on a scent, they came within 
range of the masked guns at the 
moment, the signal "to arms" 
sounded. Every man of the squad 
bounded to his feet and stood in 
his place by the gun, no word was 
uttered. The gunner's mind had 



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become so animated, he could feel 
a heavenly force behind him. His 
thoughts were of such brilliant 
character, vibrating through his 
companions' mind as from na- 
ture, they grasped the thought 
itself, his bright, cheerful, elevat- 
ing and confident thoughts, trav- 
eling swiftly and mingling with 
others of their kind lifting one as 
into realms akin to Heaven. Every 
man stood erect, ready for duty 
as he understood it, if in error, it 
was an honest mistake. The en- 
emy moved to the obstruction of 
barbed wire, apparently not see- 
ing the masked guns. The first 
column commenced to cut the 
wire, when the signal to fire was 
sounded. 

Every gun responded as if 
operated by one man, although 
composed of more than a score of 



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guns. The bullets of the machine 
guns rattled on the enemy. Shall 
all soldiers learn to disregard 
guns by experience? The first 
column fell in their tracks, the 
next stepped in their places, the 
buzz of the machine guns contin- 
ued, column after column went 
down until the stacks of men 
made it impossible to advance 
under the terrific fire, the remain- 
ing units retreated. The machine 
gun is the master of this war. 
When the command came to cease 
firing, the gun squad was ex- 
hausted. 

The gunner examined his 
watch; it pointed to three a. m. 
and he whispered to himself: 
"Hearken, therefore, unto the 
supplications of Thy servant, and 
of Thy people Israel, which they 
shall make toward this place; 



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hear thou from thy dwelling- 
place, even from heaven and 
when Thou hearest, forgive." 
"But will God in every deed dwell 
with men on the earth?" 

With his eyes all aglow, his 
prostrate form fell upon the 
ground. His active mind worked 
rapidly in his struggle to solve 
the horror of the occurrence. 
This is one of the most fatal dis- 
asters and blot upon the earth. 
Civilized life must adjust man- 
kind on entirely different lines 
and under new conditions. This 
world must conform and submit 
to the control of more divine laws. 
Christ is the light and in Him is 
no darkness. He opened the eyes 
of the blind; He will open the eyes 
of the world, may my eyes be 
opened, may the coin through 
which man looks drop from his 



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eyes and he see God's light once 
more. 

"Were half the power that fills the world 

with terror, 

Were half the wealth bestowed on camps 

and courts 

Given to redeem the human mind from error, 

There were no need of arsenals or forts." 



CHAPTER II. 



THE SOLDIER'S DREAM. 



At this moment he seemed to 
see coming toward him, crossing 
the bloody battlefield, his earthly 
father. Impossible; a man who 
had passed the four-score and six 
mile stone of his life. It could be 
no other. As he walked with his 
staff, and with his calm face, his 
son knew him and spoke to him. 

"How came you at this scene of 
horror?" 

"My son, I am on a long journey 
and I desire your company. Come 
go with me to the far away land." 

"Father, while I have always 
obeyed your commands, I can not 
forsake the colors; they must be 



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protected for the enemy may re- 
turn at any moment, and every 
man will be needed." 

"My son, many a man has been 
compelled to lay down his arms 
and leave his work to be finished 
by others; when he is called to un- 
dertake greater work. Come, my 
son, join me in this great under- 
taking. You may yet return to 
finish your work." 

"But, my father, I am without 
money or means of support for a 
long journey. I will perish upon 
the way." 

"No, my son. No purse nor 
script will be needed on this jour- 
ney; no hunger; no starvation; 
we will feed upon the mind. This 
is the food of eternal life. Come, 
let us be away." 

The gunner rose and followed 
the man of science, long master 



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of the human body and chemis- 
try; profound student of animal 
and vegetable life. For a man of 
his age, he walked with elasticity, 
as one with a determined pur- 
pose. 

The son waited for something 
to be spoken by his father. He 
expected something to be said of 
the undertaking, but not a word 
was spoken. 

Presently he said, "Father, you, 
for a long time, have made a 
study of the science of the world. 
I, in my work, have found many 
things I do not understand as to 
our duty to God and to man. I re- 
call many things you taught me 
in my youth and have since fol- 
lowed your writings for light. I 
recall some things said by you in 
a public address many years ago. 
These impressions come to me 



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afresh from reading a recent re- 
port published. The address was 
delivered September 16, 1858. In 
part I recall you said: 

"The earth is given to man as a 
place of abode and the first great 
necessity that presses itself is to 
provide food and protection 
against the vicissitudes of the 
climate. There is no natural pro- 
vision made anywhere for man's 
subsistance without labor. In the 
most favored climate, it is neces- 
sary for man to gather the fruit 
that constitutes his food. And 
nowhere is he secure without 
some sort of shelter or dwelling 
as a means of protection. Rai- 
ment is also indispensible. Food, 
raiment and shelter are essen- 
tials, making imperious demands 
that must be supplied." 

"I have given you every herb- 



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bearing seed which is upon the 
face of all the earth, and every 
tree in which is the fruit of the 
tree yielding seed; to you it shall 
be for meat. And every beast of 
the earth, and every fowl of the 
air, and to everything that creep- 
eth upon the earth wherein there 
is life, I have given every green 
herb for meat; and it was so. This 
paradisical state has been 
changed by the fiat of the Al- 
mighty and the stern denuncia- 
tion is uttered from Heaven. 
"Cursed is the ground for thy 
sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of 
it all the days of thy life; thorns 
and thistles shall it also bring 
forth to thee; and thou shalt eat 
the herb of the field; in the sweat 
of thy face shalt thou eat bread." 
Such are the written decrees of 
Him who changeth not. 



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"The unwritten law of nature 
is equally plain and equally im- 
perious. Man is required to go 
forth daily and labor to supply his 
physical wants; and it is no small 
portion of his time that is thus re- 
quired, but he must plod on and 
continually. Thorns and thistles 
are the products of the earth. 
Without labor man is the most 
destitute of all living beings. The 
beasts of the field find ready sus- 
tenance in the native herbs of the 
broad pastures spread out before 
them; their drink is the running 
brook. Nature has provided suf- 
ficient garment to protect them 
against the inclemencies of the 
seasons. They are filled and find 
sufficient shelter beneath the 
trees of the forest. The feath- 
ered tribes find ready food in the 
myriads of insects that creep 



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upon the earth or float upon the 
atmosphere; the most dainty and 
varied food is ever spread out be- 
fore them. They are clothed with 
a feathery garment, not only an 
ample protection, but of hues the 
most varied and beautiful. Thus 
provided for, well may song of 
thanksgiving be uttered from 
every bush and shrub by the 
whole warbler race. Even the 
finny tribes that inhabit the wa- 
ters, in the ample provision made 
them, may bask in their native 
element or sport themselves on 
the broad surface of the ocean, 
unconscious of want. 

"Man alone is unprovided for. 
The most needy creature of the 
whole. He looks out upon the 
universe with wonder and delight 
as he beholds the beauties of all 
created things. Delighted and 



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joyous he might remain, if he 
were not suddenly aroused by the 
inward gnawings of hunger, to a 
sense of his unprovided condition. 
He is here admonished of the de- 
cree of heaven, the unalterable 
law of nature, 'in the sweat of 
thy face shalt thou eat bread/ 

"Although man is thus placed 
below all created beings in the 
provision for his natural wants, 
in the gift of reason he is placed 
high above them all. This rich 
gift is given to man alone in a 
high degree. Thus he is enabled 
to see and properly appreciate his 
wants, and make provision for 
them. The promptings of unsup- 
plied wants arouses first the great 
mental power of man and he soon 
conceives the idea of domesticat- 
ing the wild beast of the forest 
and appropriating them to the 



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supply of those wants upon which 
his existence depends. Herds are 
soon collected — and here labor 
commences. The first occupation 
of man is that of a shepherd — a 
tender of flocks. As these in- 
crease, pastures are sought and 
folds erected. Labor thus begun, 
intellectual light increases at 
every step, and, as flocks increase, 
new modes for their sustenance 
are soon devised in the cultivation 
of forage plants. 

"To cultivate the useful, the 
useless must be rejected, and 
working as well as thinking, is 
fairly begun. The ability to sup- 
ply all natural wants is beginning 
to be understood. The unsatisfied 
appetite prompts to the seeking 
of other supplies, and it is soon 
found in the seed-bearing plant. 
'I have given you every herb- 



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bearing seed/ A rich supply here 
offers itself but not without labor. 
Thorns and thistles continue to 
grow and must be extirpated 
from among the seed-bearing 
plants. The hands must perform 
the duty and the decree is ever 
present 'in the sweat of thy face 
shalt thou eat bread.' 

"The necessity to labor is very 
plainly seen in the neglect to per- 
form it. Nations living without 
work are destitute and degraded. 
Instances enough are at hand in 
the aboriginees of the continents. 
This degradation depends upon 
the want of a proper system of 
labor. In Africa, where flowers 
and fruits grow spontaneously, 
and an ever abiding spring re- 
mains, man without labor, is still 
a savage, degraded and miser- 
able. Man without labor, is not 



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only deprived of necessaries to 
supply physical wants, but is alike 
deprived of the necessaries for in- 
tellectual improvement. Labor 
is indispensable to intellectual 
growth, as well as to the supply of 
physical wants." 

I know some things and I 
know that I know them. I know 
that I exist. I know that you 
exist. I know I have a body. I 
know this body must be supplied 
with the proper food or it will per- 
ish. I know from actual experi- 
ence I must toil to supply these 
wants. I know that my thoughts 
grow and multiply as I attempt to 
solve these problems of life. 
What is this mind and what is the 
connection with the body and how 
far reaching is its functions? 

"My son, reason is not individ- 
ual; it is universal among men 



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and absolute and consequently 
infallible; every serious convic- 
tion must cover a concealed faith 
in thought, in reason and in God. 

"The Mind, like the diamond in 
its original state, is rude and un- 
polished; but as the effect of the 
chisel on the external coat soon 
presents to view the latent beau- 
ties of the diamond, so education 
discovers the latent virtues of the 
mind, to display the summit of hu- 
man knowledge." 

By education and the school of 
experience, the mind is prepared 
throughout the brain and the 
cells in the body, to reason and 
master the functions and powers 
given by the Creator. A study of 
the mind is calculated to impress 
upon you a firm belief in the being 
and existence of a God. The drill 



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of the mind develops the memory, 
no matter how simple the lesson it 
must retain for future use. When 
an idea which we have once had 
is used again, there is simply a 
reproduction of the same nervous 
currents over the same nerves 
and the same intelligent cells, 
with the additional feeling that 
they have produced the same re- 
sults before. This reproduction 
fastens upon the subconscious fa- 
culties and becomes knowledge. 
We see it in the child learning to 
walk. He tries it again and again 
until he has gained the knowl- 
edge. He uses the same rule in 
talking. When the subconscious 
faculties of the child grasp the 
lesson which he has learned by 
the sweat of his face he has 
earned his bread. 
The mind is so constructed and 



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directed through the wonderful 
system and mechanism of the 
nerves and cells of the body act- 
ing- upon the cells of the brain, 
combined, they become a power- 
ful sending and receiving station 
through the mental currents pro- 
duced in the intellect of man over 
the instrument so wisely given by 
the Creator. These mental cur- 
rents or thoughts are delivered in 
two ways; through the voice and 
upon the electrones in the air 
about us. These electrones ap- 
plicable and supplied for sending 
the thought messages are the 
most sensitive in nature yet dis- 
covered by man. They are much 
more refined than the electrones 
used for sending a wireless mes- 
age; to give a crude comparison, 
the difference is greater than the 
mechanism of the finest watch is 



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over the sundial. We all have 
seen men with such highly devel- 
oped mental currents that it was 
unnecessary for one word to be 
spoken in order for him to lift our 
own mental powers into a higher 
field of thought. 

Every cell in the human body 
has a mind of its own; its activity 
is controlled by the health of the 
body. The cellulary mind is 
closely linked by a perfect nerve 
system with the brain. In fact, it 
is so close that the action of the 
man is thereby directed to the 
mental or the animal, due to the 
development of the physical or 
reasoning cells. The Biblical 
statement is literally correct, "as 
a man thinketh in his heart, so is 
he." We are all creatures of our 
own mental creating. My son, 
thoughts are things, most power- 



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ful. This is the reason I explain 
them to you. Unless we under- 
stand this fact, we are at the mer- 
cy of a mighty force, of whose na- 
ture we know very little, and 
whose very existence many of us 
deny (as we have all discoveries) 
until we investigate them. From 
this I conclude that if we under- 
stand the nature and laws govern- 
ing this powerful force, we can 
master it and render it our instru- 
ment and assistant. All cells not 
clarified by the labor of man in his 
life work under the divine laws, 
will exhibit a material difference 
in the specific gravity or relative 
importance in the growth under 
the law between the clarified and 
unclarified upon his future life, 
more marked even than the dif- 
ference between the civilized man 
and the savage. From this I con- 



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elude, that the first step in polish- 
ing the mind is by healthy labor, 
both physical and mental. This 
we learn from the Bible, as well 
as by observation. All advanced 
educators now realize there must 
be a balancing between mind and 
body. If nature, through climatic 
conditions, supplies food to man 
for his sustenance and he be- 
comes an idler, his mind remains 
undeveloped or deteriorates. The 
divine law requires diligent labor 
to develop intelligence. The 
idler, whether rich or poor, be- 
comes a burden, a care upon man- 
kind with master minds, who are 
battling for the elevation of hu- 
manity so they may be fitted for 
the kingdom of heaven. The law 
is a fixed law and provides that 
man must place himself within its 
rules to receive its benefits. La- 



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bor or application is the first step 
in the development of the mind. 
The idle nature demands some- 
thing. He is too dumb and can 
not realize the trouble. He takes 
to sports. This does not satisfy. 
Then to alcohol, morphine, co- 
caine or opium. The idle class 
have been largely responsible 
directly or indirectly, in all ages, 
for the poisoning of the human 
mind. 

Every thought created by our 
minds is a force of greater or 
lesser intensity varying in 
strength according to the power 
behind it when delivered. If the 
thought comes from a highly civ- 
ilized man, we are lifted into a 
higher zone in the mental world, 
but on the other hand if it comes 
from a cultivated or uncultivated 
savage with force, we feel the 



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virus enter and flow through our 
entire system, when nothing but 
a heroic effort on our part will ex- 
tract it. I mean by the cultivated 
savage, a man who lives with civ- 
ilized people but never becomes 
civilized; he conceals it from his 
fellows but never stops the prac- 
tice. 

The uncivilized man is a sav- 
age. We live in the hope that he 
will embrace civilization some 
day. Joining the savage with the 
civilized man in an effort to bring 
about a higher civilization will 
stop the poisoning of the human 
mind and will give rapid momen- 
tum to the uplifting and elevat- 
ing of all mankind as one mass. 
I call your attention to the culti- 
vated savage, the hidden cur 
masked behind good people, for 
the reason a mistake is in the 



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public mind; does civilization up- 
hold and make it possible for the 
uncivilized man to rob, cheat and 
deceive his f ellowman? No. This 
is a mistake. The laws are right, 
but the law can not force you to 
investigate before you part with 
your property to the cultivated 
savage. The fault is our own. If 
we would only stop to think, the 
warning will be given us. Our 
own eager desire for gain may 
overcome or dull our faculties, 
then we are unable to judge. 

One of the strong evidences 
that thoughts are things. Take 
the patent office in any civilized 
country, for instance, who stim- 
ulate their people to development 
by invention. For civilized man 
long has realized, the race that 
exhibits the greatest inventive 
genius, that is the divine nature 



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to better conditions, which is in- 
nate in every man will develop 
when he knows the reward will 
come to those he loves. A close 
observation of the information 
gathered through the above 
channels will demonstrate that 
many persons are working on the 
same subject, although widely 
separated from each other, with 
no publicity of any kind; but they 
will obtain practically the same 
results. Another example. The 
result of a great battle is known 
to keen minds long before the 
news channels proclaim the facts. 
When the news does come, it is 
only a confirmation by the official 
report. This mighty force is open 
to all, as much as the learning of 
the alphabet and will not take 
much more time. 



CHAPTER III. 



IMPRESSED WITH EFFULGENCE 
OF LOVE 



Love is the turning of darkness 
into light in the human mind. It 
is joy, rapture, radiance, gener- 
osity, the very sole of good fellow- 
ship, the very essence of life it- 
self. It is the thing that acts 
direct upon the mind, the reason- 
ing power of mankind; the thing 
that makes the human being like 
the image of God. The mother, 
sister and wife show the very 
highest development of love, con- 
trolling and directing their men- 
tal powers as seen in this life. The 
man often terms this intuition, 
and thus excuses his own def ec- 



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tive knowledge. The very essence 
of her mind is love, which we see 
exhibited in her through her off- 
spring and which the child re- 
turns with such a fondness that it 
could only be given in the pres- 
ence of angels. Nature seems to 
provide in the heart of the honest 
mother, a direct connection with 
the higher influence and a higher 
state of development of love ex- 
hibited through the mother's love 
for the child. She seems to real- 
ize in the children, "for of such is 
the kingdom of heaven." The 
mother, wife and sisters are the 
makers and keepers of a mina- 
ture heaven itself — a happy home 
for man to repose in after his la- 
bors of love for those near and 
dear to him, which lifts him into a 
sphere akin to heaven. 
The child at birth comes into 



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the world with pure nature's love, 
which would remain so if not 
changed by the law of contact or 
absorbtion. We unintentionally 
teach him fear in early infancy, 
instead of showing him how to 
solve the lessons of life in the 
school of experience. Youth can 
be directed through the law of 
reason, if given at an early period 
of life. All adults recall lessons 
given them by their parents at a 
very early time in their life, a 
lasting impression, a mother's ad- 
vice, a heavenly command. If we 
violate these divine lessons that 
are fixed in our intelligence, in 
fact our very being, we overrule 
the law of intelligent love and 
take in its place nothing for the 
better; it can not be acquired. 
More likely we take in its place 
fear, envy, jealousy or hate. 



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Every one is given the power to 
drive these savages from their 
door with a command to begone. 
When love is once fixed upon an 
object, and we violate it without 
just cause, we bring upon our- 
selve a very disastrous mental 
condition, although we may deny 
it to ourselves and the world, we 
can not hide the mental shock 
upon our senses. The brain cells 
become abnormal, congested, fev- 
erish, the nerve system conveys it 
to every cell center in the body 
and are easily inoculated with the 
degraded germs, which, in time, 
will develop into bodily or mental 
derangement. Thus it gathers 
force until disorder, either dis- 
ease of the body or mind, is propa- 
gated therefrom of a like kind. 
When one realizes that hate, envy 
and jealousy have opened the gall 



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ducts of the body and thrown out 
the poison into the whole system, 
killing all intelligent love and 
making of man a savage, he un- 
derstands why he casts aside the 
woman who has given him her 
whole life; left family and all the 
ties of her youth and bestowed 
her love upon him. He either 
gathers her love up in his arms, 
places it with his own, where it is 
grafted with that given him by 
his Creator, and the grafted 
product brings forth a higher de- 
velopment in life itself, or he 
casts it aside like a savage. When 
one discards divine love it pro- 
duces a state of mental atrophy, 
with nothing for sustenance save 
the body. I mean by divine love 
that spark given us and which 
dwells within the intellectual 
mental circle, which directs us in 



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our labors upon the earth. This 
spark is in no way a part of the 
body or the animal instincts of 
man which he gathers from expe- 
rience upon the earth. This love 
is a gift from the Divine Creator 
of man and we find it very often 
retained in its purity, and I think 
I can safely say, more often 
among the humble and lowly than 
among those that have had 
greater opportunities. We often 
find among the poor, one wielding 
this divine power like some pow- 
erful magnet over all who come in 
contact with him. This force is 
so great that they have been 
known to direct the destiny of na- 
tions. The nature of this divine 
love when highly developed and 
has retained its purity, is such 
that the talent is multiplied so 
rapidly that it ingrafts itself 



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freely and acts as an anondyne to 
all who infuse its principles. 

Mankind found at a very early 
period in his occupancy of the 
earth, that if they retained the di- 
vine gift of the Creator, they 
must protect it from its natural 
and destructive enemies, such as 
hate, anger, fear, destruction of 
mankind and all kindred enemies 
ever ready to destroy the power 
intended for the use in his eleva- 
tion, but he had not yet learned 
that the Creator had also given 
him the power of defense through 
the law of mental force yet undis- 
covered; that mental power which 
will brush aside as a speck of dust 
by the wind; the brute force in 
use by man to overpower those 
who oppose him in the gratifica- 
tion of his desires. The mind be- 
ing undeveloped, man learns 



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largely by observation. He sees 
this brute force in active opera- 
tion; that is, defense behind a 
barrier. He then uses the appli- 
ance for his own protection, the 
same as in use in modern battles, 
such as you were engaged in 
when I found you. This is the 
brute method of robbery and de- 
fense. No one can deny that man 
is a savage brute, who follows 
these methods in this time of the 
world's civilization. Man learns 
from these object lessons while 
yet in his lowly estate, to protect 
himself from his enemy by a for- 
tress. He constructed for him- 
self at first a shelter, a barrier. 
Likely only four walls was the be- 
ginning. He then learns that 
unity is strength, and he takes 
unto himself a companion to 
strengthen the divine love within 



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his own soul and adding thereto 
the divine love given by the Crea- 
tor to woman and retained by her 
in much greater purity than is 
possible by man as shown by the 
history of the world. These 
united powers or talents of both, 
elevate the home so that it is no 
longer just four walls, but is 
turned into a miniature of the 
house not made with hands. It is 
a place where he realizes the full 
reward for his labors, the place 
where ambition is ingrafted into 
his life, a place where he learns 
the benefits he will receive from 
knowledge; its power in protect- 
ing this asylum constructed for 
the helplessness of childhood, of 
old age, in illness, in grief, a shel- 
ter for all those he loves and that 
are near and dear to him. The 
place where the weary may seek 



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guarded repose and drop earthly- 
mask to look with heavenly hon- 
esty into the true eyes of those he 
loves. Home to man is the place 
where the heart's dearest are gar- 
nered; where faith, mercy, peace, 
tenderness, self-sacrifice and 
kindness are cultivated in the soul 
of mankind. The home is the re- 
treat that in a moment of need 
becomes a stronghold which the 
world may not meddle with or 
enter, if violated, destroyed or 
polluted by man will bring upon 
him a penalty more horrible than 
death. He can not be justified by 
ambition, conquest, church or na- 
tional pride; no excuse will avert 
the penalty. I mention these as 
but a portion of the attributes 
that make home the earthly sanc- 
tuary for whose maintenance, 
fostering care and defense, all of 



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which its creators are indebted to 
the divine law of love. Remem- 
ber, I do not speak of love in the 
limited sense of affection, but as 
to that divine law of love, that ad- 
hesive quality in nature that 
binds the universe together into 
one mass, gathering the scattered 
units of life into a oneness. Love 
is found in the animal, vegetable 
and mineral kingdom. Man has 
taken advantage of this knowl- 
edge in supplying his wants. He 
uses the knowledge in the forma- 
tion of compounds he needs for 
promoting life. 

Love is priceless and can not be 
purchased with money or earthly 
value. You must purchase it in 
kind and give the best that you 
have and it will come back to you 
many fold. Remember, you can 
not bestow divine love upon your- 



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self. Every one can see deceit ex- 
cept yourself. 

LIFE'S MIRROR. 

"There are loyal hearts, there are spirits 
brave. 

There are souls that are pure and true ; 
Then give to the world the best you have, 

And the best will come back to you. 

Give love and love to your life will flow, 
A strength in your utmost need; 

Have faith and a score of hearts will show 
Their faith in your word and deed. 

Give truth and your gift will be paid in kind, 

And honor will honor meet, 
And a smile that is sweet will surely find 

A smile that is just as sweet. 

For Life is the mirror of king and slave, 

'Tis just what we are and do ; 
Then give to the world the best you have 

And the best will come back to vou." 



CHAPTER IV. 



WE LEARN THROUGH MENTAL SCIENCE 
HOW TO BUILD THE BODY- 



"WHILE I LIVE." 

"Since it has been my lot to find, 

At every parting of the road, 
The helping hand of comrade kind, 

To assist me with my heavy load ; 
And since I have no gold to give, 

And love alone must make amends, 
My humble prayer is, while I live, 

God make me worthy of my friends." 

Man's life upon the earth is a 
very short time for him to per- 
form the labor of developing the 
mental talents given him by the 
Creator at the beginning. These 
talents are so small that he is 
given a body for the home of the 



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talents only large enough for the 
purpose. As he gathers and adds 
to the talents with mental food 
taken from the resources about 
him, he grows strong mentally 
and bodily, very rapidly and to 
hold his equal poise as at the be- 
ginning, his casement must be 
added to from time to time in har- 
mony with his gathered talents. 
So his mother has supplied his 
body at the beginning and taught 
his mind to sustain him through 
the law of nature, thereby adding 
to this outer garment necessary 
in covering the delicate mechan- 
ism used in the gathering of men- 
tal talents from the network of 
richly ladened harvest all about 
him. 

The method of the process used 
by the mother and afterwards by 
the young under her teachings is 



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much like the bee gathering 
woodpulp to make a casement or 
cup for the honey. These little 
cups perform much the same pur- 
pose in protecting the honey as 
the body in protecting the intel- 
lectual parts of man. The prop- 
erties come from the same source 
but through different channels; 
that is, from the earth. The 
methods are very different in ex- 
tracting the products from the 
earth. The bee gathers the wood- 
pulp direct from the decaying 
plant, working it into casements 
for the protection of the germ- 
life deposited for their own repro- 
duction in the honey gathered 
from the very essence of plant 
life, while mankind gathers 
scientifically treated woodpulp 
from nature's laboratory. He con- 
sumes the plant or its fruits as 



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experience has taught him is the 
best for the body building. At 
first mankind consumed large 
quantities of animal food pro- 
cured by the chase, and he after- 
wards domesticated the animal 
for his convenience. While the 
two processes are different, the 
difference is largely that the 
earth's products in one instance 
is longer in the manufacture than 
the other; the result is largely the 
same. I think it is safe to say that 
the body of mankind is of the 
earth when we analyze the source 
of the food he consumes; then we 
have it confirmed by divine rec- 
ords. We can see how this body 
is produced through the process 
of storing fibers in much the same 
way as was provided in our begin- 
ning through the mother, being 
added thereto until we behold a 



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fully grown man to be continually 
cared for under these laws of na- 
ture. The more direct from the 
soil, that is the nearer the product 
consumed in building the body of 
man is to the earth, the more per- 
fect the tissues. The animal food 
consumed by man, while flavored 
with enticing juices that stimu- 
late the appetite with an inclina- 
tion to over feed, their consump- 
tion is not so conducive to the 
rapid development of the civil- 
ized man as food taken almost 
direct from the soil, like the fruits 
in plant life grown either in or 
above the ground. The chemical 
development from vegetable food 
in the machinery provided by na- 
ture for the growth of man's body 
is less taxed than from animal 
food as well as giving better re- 
sults. In properly building the 



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organism of man's body which is 
very important for the reason 
that all life cells must be bedded 
with exactness and tension, so 
that the lower cells will distribute 
through the body and maintain 
their full intelligent force and 
properly gather intellectual tal- 
ents from nature and add to those 
of the mind. By lax bedding in 
the body of the life cells man will 
become prematurely old, through 
the bedding process of the life 
cells if the casement should be- 
come diseased or overloaded by 
excessive feeding and it will 
effect the whole intelligent sys- 
tem in a greater or less degree 
according to the extent of the 
disturbance. 

The fluids or flavors mixed with 
the solids taken in flesh furnish 
the lubrication for the body and 



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assist in the distribution of the 
solids to the parts needing addi- 
tions and repairs. 

Under the laws governing a 
healthy man, it is necessary that 
he be always well balanced in his 
bodily properties and his mental 
functions. If he fails in either, 
the other becomes abnormal or 
shrinks through nature's effort 
to balance the man and generally 
leads to a failure of a successful 
life. 

Every intellectual cell linked 
by the Creator to a man's intelli- 
gence is necessary as a part of 
the machinery used in adding to 
his talents and every cell must be 
well and not over bedded to re- 
tain its function when it comes 
in contact with the great law of 
force; that is, in the contest 
mapped out by the Creator in this 



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battle of life. I am more and 
more impressed as I near the end 
of a long and healthy life, that 
man, to harvest a great crop of 
mental talents in the Creator's 
vineyard, is in need of every mo- 
ment of his allotted three score 
and ten years to gather a full har- 
vest. When his harvest season is 
shortened by his own acts or his 
neglect or even from his own ig- 
norance, he passes into the great 
beyond with a short harvest ac- 
count, a failure unfit to proceed. 
He is out of the orbit of the divine 
course, wandering without any 
control; no guide to show him the 
way. I am satisfied that as man 
climbs up the rungs of civiliza- 
tion, he will realize more and 
more in his struggles, how great 
the loss sustained through his 
shortened time upon earth, so 



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that the coming man will abso- 
lutely refuse to contribute his 
time to anything that will take 
from his mental work necessary 
for his development. The de- 
struction of the physical stops 
the growth of the mental so far as 
can be seen by man, or a partial 
destruction of the physical great- 
ly impairs the mental growth, the 
imparity loses the harmony. 

Through the laboratory, scien- 
tists have discovered many 
things heretofore unknown to 
man, his connection with the 
earth, the proper food for body 
building, the purpose of the 
physical man and how to properly 
develop it with the mental. We 
also have learned through mental 
science how to build the body so 
that it will develop the mind into 
the civilized man instead of the 



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savage. Science has discovered 
that the evolution of man is not 
through selection any more than 
it is through light and dark or hot 
and cold or any other varying 
condition, but is worked out 
through the divine wisdom called 
mental force, carrying out a 
great divine plan of the Creator. 
The tide of the minds of men 
ebbs and flows like the sea. The 
seventh wave often destroys 
many things accomplished by the 
workers in carrying out the di- 
vine plan and which must be done 
all over again, for man is under a 
law as fixed and unchanged in the 
final result as time itself. It is 
something like the law govern- 
ing the seasons; the changing 
events make many hardships and 
give many pleasures. We know 
through mental reasoning, which 



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we sometimes call experience, 
that time will solve the most diffi- 
cult problem if we use the force in 
our minds in an honest endeavor 
to overcome them. By the use of 
brute force or blind force, we 
often see men working under dif- 
ficulties hard to surmount, not 
realizing that he has run counter 
with the laws of nature and his 
failure is for the reason that he is 
against an impenetrable wall. 
Then we blindly ask ourselves, 
why the short time is allotted to 
man for this life in which we 
must work out our successes; if it 
were for a thousand years we 
would do no better if we followed 
the same method. It is only a 
case of the "buried talent" we can 
only hope to return that which 
was given us without additions. 
This great partnership between 



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mind and body is the joining link 
between heaven and earth, to be 
successfully connected both must 
perform their functions. The 
mind being the senior member, 
must perform the work of plan- 
ning the business and directing 
the execution of all necessary acts 
that are required to be done in 
this life partnership with labor; 
the work must be so planned 
within the limit of the capacity of 
the combined members of the 
partnership. The work must be 
so planned for each day that the 
labor can be disposed of in a full 
day's work and laid away at the 
completion as well done. On the 
other hand, the duty of the junior 
partner which is endowed with 
the brawn, is to perform the work 
planned by his partner mind. He 
must do it well and labor with in- 



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dustry. Idle hours, pleasure, 
commercialism, dishonesty, de- 
bauchery and crime will produce 
failure in the purpose of the firm, 
or in the end absolute ruin. The 
business must be conducted 
under the Universal laws and 
when man's laws or even usage 
comes in conflict with the Univer- 
sal they must be abrogated. Man 
has learned through the long ex- 
perience recorded in the world's 
history that this firm, we know as 
man, to accomplish success must 
be as near perfect as possible in 
both mind and body. So when 
mind expects to accomplish a dif- 
ficult task he must see to it that 
body is in condition to perform 
the labor, thus in developing the 
functions of the mind the mental 
units must be well seated in a 
healthy body. For this reason the 



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mind turns to the science of the 
laboratory to gain knowledge. He 
discovers that the food for the 
body comes from the earth and 
the more direct, the better the re- 
sult for body building. He learns 
in this way that the fungus of 
some kinds give splendid results 
although produced over night. 
From this he learns that food 
taken from very near the earth 
gives splendid body fibre. The 
science of chemistry developed 
through mental labor is slowly 
solving the problem of tissue 
building according to the divine 
law. Man driven to the necessity 
of keeping both mind and body in 
order stop his development, 
learns that these delays will be- 
come vexatious if not serious on 
account of the short time for his 
development. 



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William Shakespeare has given 
a very good description of man's 
progress upon the earth and his 
trials. He says: 

"All the world's a stage, 
And all the men and women merely players ; 
They have their exits and their entrances; 
And one man in his time plays many parts, 
His acts being seven ages. At first the in- 
fant, 
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. 
Then the whining school boy, with his satchel 
And shining morning face, creeping like snail 
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, 
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad 
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a sol- 
dier 
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the 

pard, 
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, 
Seeking the bubble reputation 
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the 

justice 
In fair round belly with good capon lined, 
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, 
Full of wise saws and modern instances; 



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And so he plays his part. The sixth age 

shifts 
Into the lean and slippered pataloon, 
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side ; 
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too 

wide 
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly 

voice, 
Turning again towards childish treble, pipes 
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, 
That ends this strange eventful history, 
A second childishness and mere oblivion." 

The world may be a stage, but 
it can not always be at play or 
seek pleasure. There must be 
honest work to improve the sev- 
enth stage of man so that man 
will not return to the infant at the 
end. By careful thought the 
mental cells will remain almost as 
well bedded in the body at old age 
as it is at full development. The 
trouble comes from the neglect 
by the mind over the body. Again 



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man meets with two great diffi- 
culties in his work in this life to 
keep himself in perfect order. 
First, the thing we call sickness 
of both mind and body. We have 
advanced in the mastery of these 
ailments only through the school 
of experience. The rapidity of 
our development in this school 
depends wholly on the talents we 
possess at the beginning and the 
cultivation of its power and 
strength through thought. The 
termination of life through sick- 
ness brings about a mental disso- 
lution and generally gives time 
for the adjustment of nature, al- 
though the occurence may seem- 
ingly be premature. 

Secondly. Violent dissolution of 
mind and body can not help from 
disarranging the fixed laws un- 
der which man is governed and 






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controlled while on the earth. 
How disastrous the effect I am 
unable to determine at this time, 
although I am satisfied that it 
does a very great injury and de- 
flects him from his path. If it had 
been trifling we would not have 
had the command, "Thou shalt 
not kill." The result must be ap- 
palling, for the command makes 
no exception, not even in battle or 
in self defense. He who violates it 
must suffer the penalty. The 
Book of Revelations gives as a 
penalty, "He that killeth with the 
sword must be killed with the 
sword." This should be sufficient 
warning to mankind that the 
Creator does not approve of the 
violent dissolution of man in this 
school of experience. I have 
nothing but pity for the man sent 
out of this life, an unfinished 



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product, yea for the man respon- 
sible for the failure, whether he 
be prince or pauper, rich or poor, 
his loss is no one's gain. 

War, war. There is no need of 
war. It is only to satisfy the 
greed of some one. Gold. How 
many men have lost their lives 
for the King's gold, or the King's 
greedy eye on gathering the 
crops off the neighbor's adjacent 
fields. It impresses me with the 
old Parable of Life: 

"The fox once came near a very fine 
garden, where he beheld lofty trees 
laden with fruit that charmed the eye. 
Such a beautiful sight, added to his 
natural greediness, excited in him the 
desire of possession. He fain would 
taste the forbidden fruit, but a high 
wall stood between him and the object 
of his wishes. He went about in search 
of an entrance, and at last found an 
opening in the wall ; but it was too small 



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for his big body. Unable to penetrate 
he had recourse to his usual cunning. 
He fasted three days and became suffi- 
ciently reduced to crawl through the 
small aperture. Having effected an en- 
trance, he carelessly roved about in this 
delightful region; making free with its 
exquisite produce and feasting on its 
most rare and delicious fruit. He 
stayed for sometime and glutted his ap- 
petite, when a thought struck him, that 
it was possible that he might be ob- 
served, and in that case he should pay 
dearly for the enjoyed pleasure. He 
therefore retired to the place where he 
had entered and attempted to get out, 
but to his great consternation, he found 
his endeavors vain, — he had by indul- 
gence grown so fat and plump that the 
same place would no more admit him. 

'I am in a fine predicament,' said he 
to himself, 'Suppose the master of the 
garden were now to come and call me to 
account, what would become of me? I 
see my only chance of escape is to fast 
and half starve myself.' He did so with 
great reluctance, and after suffering 
hunger for three days, he with difficulty 
made his escape. As soon as he was 



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out of danger, he took a farewell view 
of the garden, the scene of his delight 
and trouble ; and thus addressed it 

"Garden; garden; thou art indeed 
charming and delightful, thy fruits are 
delicious and exquisite; but of what 
benefit are thou to me? What have I 
now for all my labor and cunning? Am 
I not lean as I was before?" 

"It is even so with man. Naked 
comes he into the world — naked must he 
go out of it ; and of all his toils and labor 
he can carry nothing with him, save the 
fruits of his righteousness." 

In this great world's war, na- 
tions are much slower than the 
fox in seeing the lesson of life. 
They should receive the warning 
before it is too late. The master 
of the garden is sure to return 
and render retribution. 

Nations find it easy to get into 
war, but very hard to get out. 
Those left upon the battlefield 
never gain anything nor profit 



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by victory, although their country 
wins the day. They lose their 
chance, the universe loses them, 
it is a loss to their families and 
friends; although their masters 
may occupy the "garden" for a 
little while, until the great law of 
force drives them out, as a just 
judgment of the mind of man- 
kind, for "he that leadeth into 
captivity shall go into captivity/' 
This is an unbroken rule evi- 
denced by the history of man on 
the globe, not only in history but 
nations are forewarned by writ- 
ers and poets: 

"Rome shall perish — write the word 

In the blood that she has spilt; 
Perish, hopeless and abhorred, 

Deep in ruin as in guilt. 
Rome, for empire far renowned, 

Trample on a thousand states ; 
Soon her pride shall kiss the ground — 

Hark ; the Gaul is at her gates." 



TO 

All nations that live by the 
sword must die by the sword is 
according to nature's laws and 
there is no escape. All things 
have an affirmative and a nega- 
tive side, a dark and a light side 
of its life. This rule is never 
broken by nature. No day is so 
long and beautiful but that it 
must have its night. The magnet 
has two poles and so with all 
things in nature. It is the load- 
stone of life, the linking of the 
ethereal with the solids. There 
can be no divine creation that is 
not well balanced. 

Mankind is the only living 
thing that has attempted to vio- 
late these fixed laws of nature. 
How successfully he has accom- 
plished it no one but God himself 
can determine the effect upon the 
cosmos. Our knowledge is too 



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limited for us to fully determine 
beyond our limited knowledge. 
Some things we see man has done 
to upset his natural development. 
We see that war stops the repro- 
duction of the very pick of a race, 
stopping the earth work of the 
male and leaving the female des- 
titute and the home unprovided 
for and the coming generations 
stultified and dwarfed in mind 
and body. I never walk over a 
battlefield upon the ashes of the 
dead bodies left from the battle 
without feeling that here under 
my feet lie the bodies of the flow- 
er of their race. What has be- 
come of the minds of these men? 
Is this air loaded with the frag- 
ment of the minds which have 
been violently cast out of their 
body and shattered in bits upon 
the four winds of the universe, 



_2 

the particles scattered and forced 
into many different cycles of the 
cosmos, apart and separated from 
each other, floating with others of 
the unfortunates, like a human 
nebula utterly disarranged as 
fixed by nature, each particle 
grasping at any luminous waves 
or radiating heat to gain their 
own in the network of chaos. Man 
knows not how long this fight 
must go on to regain their orig- 
inal units, that the mind of man 
may commence their life work 
anew. I see these monuments 
erected to mark these acts and 
deeds of valor, that the coming 
generatians may know of the 
battle but not of their terrible 
sacrifice. I pray that these monu- 
ments may be of some assistance 
to the perished upon the battle- 
field for the location and the as- 



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sembling of their mental frag- 
ments blown asunder by these 
high explosives, that they may be 
a beacon light for their camp- 
fires at the great assembling of 
rank and file in reformation under 
divine laws. No one except the 
Creator can determine the time 
necessary to complete the work 
of repairing the destruction done 
to man. When they gain this 
knowledge wars will be at an end. 
Man has gained a slight insight 
into the effect of high explosives 
upon the mind through the un- 
surpassed tests made in this war 
and how the mind is disturbed 
even in soldiers escaping compact 
with the explosives, the effect 
above being from concussion and 
in many cases the mind is never 
restored as far as can be seen in 
this life. As man grows stronger 



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mentally he will be very reluctant 
to give so much even for his coun- 
try. Is pollution or self-preserva- 
tion, the divine essence of the 
mind? 

LIFE'S ENDEAVOR. 

"I expect to pass through this world 
but once. Any good thing, therefore, 
that I can do, or any kindness that I can 
show to any fellow being, let me do it 
now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for 
I shall not pass this way again." 



CHAPTER V. 



THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR 
PROGENITORS. 



Back in the early ages of man's 
existence upon the earth he lived 
in the mountains, which was nat- 
ural for his own self -protection. 
He had not yet learned to protect 
himself from his enemy, so he 
was compelled to live in caves in 
the mountains, that being the 
easiest place for his protection 
from wild beasts and a safe dwell- 
ing-place. As a cave-dweller he 
could easily protect his young 
from being destroyed in their ten- 
der years. This kind of a dwell- 
ing place in the wilds of the earth 



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was near to the game on which he 
depended for sustenance for him- 
self and family, His intelligence 
was of a low order and what he 
possessed was almost useless 
through the terrible fear that 
overcame him. His knowledge 
was limited to the first instruc- 
tions, without culture but as na- 
ture gave them; just a savage 
man, little above his neighbors, 
the wild beasts of the earth. On 
these wild beasts he must rely for 
food. The washing of the moun- 
tains by storms carried away the 
fertile soil and left no vegetation 
to supply him with food. He had 
not yet learned of these provis- 
ions of nature, so he learned to 
rely alone upon flesh of the ani- 
mals for his food and their skins 
fox his clothing to protect him 
from the rigorous elements about 



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him in the winter. Through these 
habits of sustaining his body by 
preying upon the beasts of the 
mountains they became afraid 
and treated man as a deadly en- 
emy. They avoided him as best 
they could and from this fear, 
man found his food more difficult 
to obtain and at times he was 
hungry and half starved. From 
this he was forced to resort to his 
mind for assistance. He made 
pits and traps that he might in- 
crease his capacity for securing 
food for if he did not, he must go 
hungry. This started his mind to 
work and as it solved these diffi- 
cult problems it became stronger, 
reason came to him and con- 
sumed his fear and he was a 
stronger man in mind and body. 
His intelligence produced ambi- 
tion and love within his heart; 



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ambition brought a desire to bet- 
ter his condition and to do some- 
thing for those he loved. To sat- 
isfy these desires he left the lim- 
ited territory he was accustomed 
to follow through the mountains 
and the shadows and traveled out 
into the valley and sunlight. 

The marks of these old dwell- 
ing places have not been entirely 
obliterated even to this day. They 
are yet to be seen in a number of 
places upon the earth and are a 
monumental history, an open 
book to teach the coming genera- 
tions the lesson of development 
made by their progenitors. 

After the cave dwelling period 
had passed man seemed to take 
on a new life in mind and body. 
That is, he apparently com- 
menced the development of him- 
self after his changed conditions 



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of life, not alone in body by the 
use of mixed foods, but he grew 
strong mentally, through the 
seed of the Creator within him, 
the only link whereby he may 
connect with the cycle about his 
Creator. This embryo generative 
atom is joined with this parent 
cycle. I might say, something 
like a key is fastened to a great 
key ring by the little ring head, 
these heads representing the in- 
telligent cycle within man made 
up of the long line of cells which 
controls his senses and are con- 
nected with those of his Creator. 
It is possible that his intelligent 
cycle may be of such low order or 
so imperfect that the connection 
is never properly made with the 
cycle about the Creator, no mat- 
ter how heavily charged the pa- 
rent cycle is with magnetism. 



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This condition seemed to exist for 
a long time, this dormant state in 
man. Then it came quickly to life 
under proper conditions like the 
dormant seed in vegetable life 
after a warm rain, as man's in- 
tellect is warmed through the de- 
velopment of the connecting cells 
of his mental powers, completing 
the cycle of the mind at its high- 
est unit the seed of God imbedded 
in man for the germination of his 
wisdom, we have a working plant 
for man's development. 

The seed of God does not mean 
that man is a God any more than 
the acorn is the great oak tree, 
The acorn being the seed of the 
oak tree, is given the opportunity 
of developing into a like tree. So 
with man's intelligence, being 
crowned by the seed of God, al- 
though it is a very diminutive 



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part, he is given the opportunity 
to develop into a God. 

How long it will take man to 
develop into a God, I am unable 
to determine. It depends upon 
the circumference of the circle 
around the God head, although I 
feel satisfied that it is a long time 
to work by the most direct route. 
This I can determine by nature's 
laws that are all about me, as the 
seeds, especially those that take 
such a long time for their devel- 
opment, like the great forest that 
are still in course of development, 
and generation after generation 
of men pass before they attain 
their full growth that they may 
be turned to a lasting and useful 
purpose in the development of a 
civilized earth. These laws I 
know from personal experience, 
by watching the operation of the 



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law, although the result is not 
everlasting in the product ob- 
tained. It is vastly more perfect 
than the plants that are so tender 
that they are destroyed by the 
changing seasons. From this I 
assume that the seed of God, from 
which is to grow an everlasting 
man into an image of God, the 
task being so great it must be 
under and by a long process of de- 
velopment to build an everlasting 
mind. If in the building of an 
image of the Creator time is not 
required in such a gigantic un- 
dertaking, it would be a violation 
of all other of nature's laws on 
development. When I compare 
the gigantic distance between 
God and the average man I real- 
ize that it must take time and 
labor to accomplish the divine 
purpose, and then it will be in 



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harmony with the other laws of 
nature we see every day all about 
us in all life. 

We can see, as a natural result 
of man's progress, in body and 
mental development, his confi- 
dence in himself grew so that he 
left his abode and wandered into 
the rich valley at the foot of the 
mountains. These valleys man 
found ladened with fruits of all 
kind. He found from experience 
that they would sustain life; that 
he could live upon them and that 
they were obtainable with much 
less danger of losing his own life 
than he was under while chasing 
the wild beast of the mountain. 

These pleasant surroundings 
induced him to tarry in this na- 
ture's garden before he returned 
to the mountains. The longer he 
remained the better he liked the 



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surroundings. He felt more se- 
cure from danger and also gath- 
ered the benefits produced from 
the washings of the best soil from 
the deposits of years in the moun- 
tains and washed into the valley 
below. He learned by digress 
how to prepare a home in the val- 
ley lands, at first by burrowing 
in the earth, and then later he 
learned to protect himself and 
family by building barriers about 
his dwelling place, which soon 
developed into a house. The com- 
forts and conveniences were 
added to this house as the man's 
mind developed in his battle with 
the elements, so that he was able 
to solve the problems of life as he 
came in contact with them. These 
lessons of the mind stimulated 
and started the growth of the 
seed of God within him until it 



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was not long before this divine 
ambition developed to such an ex- 
tent, that man asked himself to 
whom he was indebted for all 
these rich gifts bestowed upon 
him through nature. Who was 
the Creator? The mind had not 
yet attained the power to solve 
the problem from the divine atom 
within him; that is through the 
master cell in his own body. He 
could realize there must be a 
Creator, but he had been unable 
to find Him. Man doubtless con- 
ducted an extensive investigation 
seeking a Creator. The largest 
object by sight and the one of 
which he was able to learn very 
little, was the sun, so that he was 
not long in this field of life until 
man became a Sun worshipper. 
The sun was an object he could 
see and vaguely comprehend with 



his infant mind. He could see the 
warm effect upon plant life, and 
from this he reasoned that if the 
sun could stimulate the plant into 
life, it must have a live effect on 
man. So at the coming of the sun 
each day he faced it with adora- 
tion and devotion, praying to be 
blessed for another day. This 
established the custom of the sun 
rise meetings and the building of 
the open temple for worship. This 
was necessary so that all of the 
congregation could see the sun 
rise without their view being ob- 
structed, it being impossible in a 
covered temple. We learn of 
these temples in history, their ex- 
istence and of their passing. It 
has been said that the sun wor- 
shippers faced the East in their 
congregation at the time of wor- 
ship, facing the rising sun, their 



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object God. No one except the 
presiding priest dared to turn his 
back upon God, and he, only while 
conducting the services. This 
mode of worship did not long 
satisfy the man with the expand- 
ing seed of God within him. He 
cast about for some other solution 
of the great question of the Crea- 
tion, while his brother with the 
dormant seed was content. Thus 
man drifted into many channels 
of worship. He had not yet at- 
tained sufficient mental or divine 
development to see the broad 
highway of enlightenment and 
came to the erroneous conclusion 
that the way was a very narrow 
one and so taught all he came in 
contact. From this he turned the 
broad divine highway into com- 
mercial channels until it became 
so intolerable that God was com- 



pelled to send a warning through 
Christ, to all mankind to turn 
aside from the commercial meth- 
od of enslaving man through 
greed for commercial power back 
into the broad highway that leads 
mankind into a higher civiliza- 
tion and prepares him for life 
eternal. 

It has taken some thousand of 
years to grind away the carnivor- 
ous teeth of man that he brought 
out of the mountains with him 
and they have not yet disap- 
peared in all mankind and will 
not likely be ground away for 
many thousand years to come. 

"So many Gods, so many creeds, 
So many paths that wind and wind ; 
When just the art of being kind 
Is all the sad world needs." 



CHAPTER VI. 



REVIEWING THE PROCESS OF TURN- 

ING ANIMAL LIFE TO THE 

USE OF MAN. 



After man had become well set- 
tled in the broader field opened up 
for his development, he became 
scattered into tribes and classes. 
Some were formed in search of 
knowledge, others from the de- 
termination to remain in their 
original state, others from the de- 
sire for earthly gain. All these 
three classes have thrived with 
the the aging of the earth. I 
think the last class has outgrown 
all others. The use of their car- 
nivorous teeth, intended for use 
against the beasts of the earth, 



they readily turned against their 
fellowman who came in the way 
and retarded their greed for gain. 
We learn from the world's history 
how well they have succeeded, 
from the crimes upon its pages. 
None of these crimes are divine 
rewards but are only approved by 
man's self-made laws in direct 
conflict with the divine. If they 
had not been in conflict or if they 
had been according to the divine 
laws, Babylon would be standing 
today as well as many other cities 
of like kind. But by their con- 
struction upon greed they crum- 
bled under the divine laws and 
left no marks except bloodstains 
upon man's pages of history. The 
divine purpose of man's creation 
was not for him to organize great 
bands of murderers to slaughter 
his f ellowmen that might come in 



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conflict with his commercial plans 
he may have mapped out for his 
followers to gain earthly power. 
Apparently these plans may have 
succeeded for a time by the pay- 
ment in the loss of mental powers 
but are too great for the value re- 
ceived. The loading of brute 
force upon his followers by such 
violation of the divine laws, must 
be repaid in long time at labor to 
place all back in the mental zone 
they formally occupied. 

When man came down out of 
the mountains he stood as if in 
the light of God's countenance. 
All about him was just the things 
he needed to sustain life and 
plenty of it until he commenced to 
multiply faster than the unculti- 
vated soil could produce. Then it 
was necessary for him to labor- 
to increase the supply of food. He 



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was very reluctant to earn his 
bread by the sweat of his face and 
cast about him for assistance. 
This assistance he found in the 
beasts of the earth. From this 
necessity he domesticated some 
of the animals he found; others 
he found impossible to domesti- 
cate. All of the animals that 
would not submit to his direction 
retained a full set of carnivorous 
teeth and lived upon flesh alone, 
with a very few exceptions. Man 
soon found that the animal that 
lived on the products grown from 
the earth were much more tract- 
able than the carnivorous beast. 
This development work done by 
man in the domesticating of wild 
beast has been a very interesting 
task both mentally and physi- 
cally. After the capture, the task 
of forcing to man's commands the 



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will of the captive, is undertaken. 
The wild horse was trained to 
carry his master many miles 
farther in the day's travel than 
possible for him to cover on foot. 
By this assistance the range of 
man was extended over the earth. 
To extend the power of the horse, 
man looked to the breeding and 
development of his speed, so that 
the horse has carried man miles 
from his home. In fact the horse 
has carried man around the earth, 
in business and in war. His noble 
body has responded for any use 
man has desired, in shape and in 
form to accomplish any purpose 
man wishes to accomplish. The 
same can be said of the bovine or 
ox. While he has no qualities of 
speed, the bovine supplies many 
wants for man unattainable by 
the horse. His field of usefulness 



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is very large and his body has 
yielded to man's shaping into the 
form desired. All animals that 
have submitted to domestication, 
have been developed in body to 
fulfill the purpose of man's needs. 
Thus far the development is in 
harmony with the divine laws. 
On the other hand, while man has 
worked successfully in develop- 
ing the body of animal, he has ut- 
terly failed to develop the mind. 
The domesticated animal has no 
advantage mentally over his wild 
brother, other than the habit of 
doing certain things over and 
over again until it is fixed as by 
instinct. Man has never been 
able to teach any animal to rea- 
son, talk or apply its mind to the 
solution of any task. We can 
only conclude that the seed of God 
is absent within the circle of their 



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life cells, that they are not con- 
nected with the magic circle 
about the Creator of the uni- 
verse; that the purpose of the ani- 
mal is to serve those who possess 
the seed of God, and can never be 
connected with the divine mind in 
that great plan of uplifting into a 
higher life. Therefore, when 
man has once received the seed of 
God, it is impossible under the 
divine laws to fall into a life as 
limited as animal life. He must 
go on or remain in a dwarfed con- 
dition unfit to influence the men- 
tal course. How important it is 
for every man to make the effort 
to start the growth of the divine 
seed within him. Shall he leave 
it dormant in the casement until 
his eyes shall be opened, like some 
mountain avalanche that uncov- 
ers seed buried for thousands of 



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years and exposes them to the 
rain and warm sunlight for their 
development. All hope that the 
law of nature will give this endur- 
ing power to the precious gift 
possessed by every human being 
and that it will never be lost, a 
thing so priceless and which can 
only be used by the possessor and 
can never be cultivated by proxy. 
I hope it will never decay and that 
we may be given another oppor- 
tunity to follow the divine law if 
we fail in this life. The animal 
seems under nature's laws, to be 
limited to a life and at the end to 
be annulled like the tender plant 
at freezing, but as to man, his life 
on the earth is in a hot bed, for his 
starting on a life eternal, of which 
we see strong evidence in na- 
ture's laws. 



CHAPTER VII 



EARTH'S HISTORIC PANORAMA. 



A MILE WITH ME. 

"0 who will walk a mile with me 

Along life's merry way? 

A comrade blithe and full of glee, 

Who dares to laugh out loud and free, 

And let his frolic fancy play, 

Like a happy child through the flowers gay 

That fill the field and fringe the way 

Where he walks a mile with me. 

And who will walk a mile with me 
Along life's weary way? 
A friend whose heart has eyes to see 
The stars shine out o'er the darkening lea, 
And the quiet rest at the end of the day — 
A friend who knows and dares to say 
The brave, sweet words that cheer the way 
Where he walks a mile with me. 



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With such a comrade, such a friend, 
I fain would walk till journey's end, 
Through summer sunshine, winter rain, 
And then ? Farewell, we shall meet again. 

I see a time upon the earth 
when the lands now so crowded 
by man and ornamented with his 
labor, were uncultivated wastes 
and inhabited alone by the brute 
creation. No ray of human in- 
tellect lighted the scene, although 
life was abundant; none of God's 
creatures comprehended a Crea- 
tor. This fact has long since been 
confirmed by divine revelation 
and severe investigations of the 
geologist. 

I see the coming of man. The 
extending of our view to the 
globe. We have the Caucasian or 
Iranian occupying a territory on 
one side, dividing the continent 
of Asia, a line running from west 



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to east in the direction of the 
longest diameter of the Euxine, 
passing at first along the chain of 
Caucasus, dividing the Caspian, 
going along the Oxus nearly to 
the source of that river, thence 
turning to the southeast and fol- 
lowing the direction of the Him- 
alaya range and descending to 
the Gulf of Bengal; on the other 
side the Mongol or Turanian. 

I see to the south of the Medi- 
terranean Sea the negro tribes. I 
see these subdivisions follow 
through various occupations and 
climatic influences and affection, 
as it is borne out in plant life. 

I see the same effect in animal 
life, from which I must conclude 
that the law is a divine law, ele- 
vating not only man but the 
whole globe in varying degrees, 
subject to the changing condi- 



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tions. The mineral life changes 
much slower than plant life, as 
the surrounding conditions move 
slow in one and rapid in the other. 
In man, those who occupied the 
fairest, most fertile and temper- 
ate sections of the world devel- 
oped faster. 

I see man scattered into tribes 
like a delta of a great river com- 
ing together in the sea to be re- 
mixed into one great mass. 

I see races of men gone before, 
the fragments of which blending 
in the ones following. 

I see them ascending into a 
higher intelligence by way of a 
slow and ragged path, part of the 
mass becoming cultured savages 
and a part civilized men. The lat- 
ter gaining on the former under a 
slow but sure process. 

I see under varied conditions 



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and influences, the people of these 
three great subdivisions devel- 
oped under different methods. 
Part have been slow to separate 
from the habits of the original 
population of barbarous nomads, 
whose former existence was simi- 
lar to the Bushman of Australia 
of the present day. 

I see the superior tribes, some 
grown strong mentally, others 
physically, conquerors of the 
weak. The uncivilized negro and 
the semi-civilized Mongol were 
inhabitants of the earth when the 
first of the Caucasians were ush- 
ered into the world and is so 
proved by sacred history, which 
gives the age of each of Adam's 
antedeluvian descendants, in di- 
rect line, thus computing the time 
which elapsed between the birth 
of Adam and the Noah deluge. 



102 



As I see, Adam was the first civ- 
ilized man working with power of 
the mind over body, or the break- 
ing away from brute force dor- 
mant in man up to that period. 

I see the hand of man changing 
and shaping sacred history to 
conform to his diabolical ideas or 
commercial whims. 

I see man building a God after 
his own image instead of develop- 
ing himself into the image of God, 
until the world is full of fanatic 
Gods, the innocent not knowing 
whom to follow as their doctrines 
are so far and wide apart. 

I see a time when the breath of 
Boreas was less to blame for the 
scattering of the tribes of man 
than the sword. 

I see men formed into great 
murderous bands for commercial 
conquest instead of promoting 



10S 



the uplifting of man through the 
divine laws. 

I see a time extending through 
the history of men upon the earth 
when the flower of the civilized 
men was almost wiped out by 
these organized murderous bands 
under the guise of patriotism. 

I see the patient toil of the sur- 
vivors and the offspring of the de- 
stroyed, working to rebuild civili- 
zation so desperately attacked by 
savage man. 

I see a time coming when the 
savage man grows too small in 
numbers to impoverish the ranks 
of the civilized man, and then the 
divine plan will be developed with 
great rapidity. 

My understanding of the 
meaning of civilized man is the 
man who makes the effort to de- 
velop the seed of God within him- 



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self, to the best of his knowledge, 
under the divine plan and to do 
unto others as he would have 
others do unto him. 

I see a time when the wild bush- 
man tribes battle with and among 
themselves and scatter over the 
face of the earth and form them- 
selves into new tribes under dif- 
ferent climatic conditions, their 
skins gathering tints from the 
air, like the flowers in nature, 
some delicate tints like the rose, 
others like the tan. 

I see in time men from abso- 
lutely the same origin and with 
the same seed deposited by the 
Creator look at each other as if of 
different species. 

I see the only difference in these 
tribes of men, recognized by the 
Creator, is the mental culture 
which is the growth of the seed of 



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God within them and his hygienic 
treatment of the body. 

I see at the beginning God plac- 
ing his seed at the head of the in- 
tellectual cells in man's body and 
granting man full power to de- 
velop the growth of this seed into 
the image of God. 

I see man blindly sublet the de- 
velopment of this precious seed to 
another without regard to its 
sacred trust, turning his labors to 
the gathering of the commercial 
harvest of the earth or neglecting 
both through a wasted life. 

I see mankind teaching their 
offspring to fear the death of the 
body by starvation when the cul- 
ture of the mind would open the 
eyes to the rich harvest all about 
them and ungathered, awaiting 
the mental harvesters. 

I see men pass out of this life 



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with the seed of God unsprouted 
in the body as a beast of burden, 
with nothing but the lower cells 
or feeding cells in use and uncon- 
nected with the parent cell. 

I see that it matters not 
whether man's abode is north or 
south of the Himalayas or south 
of the Mediterranean Sea, he is 
the recipient of the gift from 
God of his divine seed, the gift is 
made whether he cultivates the 
divine essence or not, the neglect 
is his personal loss. 

I see men conducting temples 
established by the disciples of 
Christ, or the offspring of these 
established sanctuaries, in open 
violation of the very essence of 
Christ's teachings. Poor, blind 
mankind can not they see that the 
endowment is a personal one and 
without price or mediation. "And 



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Jesus went into the temple of God 
and cast out all of them that sold 
and bought in the temple, and 
overthrew the tables of the 
money changers, and the seats of 
them that sold doves, and said 
unto them, it is written, 'my 
house shall be called the house of 
prayer, but ye have made it a den 
of thieves.' And the blind and 
the lame came to him in the tem- 
ple; and he healed them." The 
true temple of God is opened to 
all mankind regardless of human 
classification or race. 

I see a time coming when the 
temple will be equipped with 
sanitary bath and clean white 
robes for the worshipers that all 
men may be seated side by side on 
comfortable undecorated seats 
without regard to class or bodily 
plumage, fulfilling an aim to 



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stimulate the growth of the seed 
of God within them, that hallowed 
glory which opens the broad road 
traveled by mankind to their ele- 
vated mental state and to safe- 
guard them as by a screen, from 
the byways traveled by savage 
man in seeking the gold of the 
earth gathered by others. 

I see the orthodox followers of 
Moses, through his hygienic 
teaching, succeed over all other 
races of men although they are 
scattered to the four parts of the 
earth and surrounded with oppos- 
ing influences, they have grown 
in mental power, especially ex- 
celling their kinsmen, the follow- 
ers of Mahomet, who have not 
been affected with the difficulties 
of migratory influences. The ad- 
vantage is in depending more on 
the mind as the working power 
than that obtained by brawn. 



109 

It does not seem strange that a 
race must be enslaved to force 
upon them the necessity of devel- 
oping the mind to meet difficul- 
ties. While the body is controlled 
by the master, the mind is at work 
formulating a plan to extract 
himself from the difficulties he 
finds overcoming his whole being, 
diverting his course of life from 
the eternal. It does seem that 
man would reason when forced 
to use both mind and body to keep 
himself out of voluntary slavery, 
thus leaving his mind dormant 
and using his body to serve the 
man who does his thinking, if the 
service is not in a direct way it is 
in an indirect way, for he is using 
less than half his power in his 
earth work, that he should claim 
his own and not go through the 
world like an ox. 



110 

I see a time at an early period of 
man's habitation upon the earth 
when some one discovered the 
power and diligently set himself 
at work developing his own mind 
and became so advanced over his 
followers that he was looked upon 
by them as divine, thus he created 
a following or a tribe for himself 
and dividing the parent body, his 
followers became a distinct tribe 
of men. Through his mental 
powers he influenced them not 
only to labor for him but they 
adopted his peculiarities and his 
tribe became different from other 
tribes and known in time as a 
race of men, not for their superior 
knowledge but on account of 
their peculiar traits, the master 
retaining the power of the mind 
for himself, very seldom being a 
teacher of the development of the 



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mind to his followers, so that it is 
easy to see how tribes and nations 
are formed with so little mental 
development. If the master had 
dropped the commercial end and 
become a teacher of mental devel- 
opment his lessons would have 
made masters of all of his follow- 
ers. Develop the minds of men 
and they become self-governing, 
following the broad highway 
created by God for mankind to 
travel on his journey back into 
the high estate from which he has 
fallen. 

I see, through the improvement 
made under mental development, 
the improvement of the law of the 
elective affinity, which we feel 
largely by the sense of the touch, 
it being the binding cord of fam- 
ily ties and which have been so 
often cut through long ages 



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passed down to the present, by 
social commercial ambitions. This 
enemy will only be eradicated 
through mental culture which is 
now almost at hand and when 
once seated in the mind will ele- 
vate civilization to a very great 
height. 

I see a time upon the earth, that 
man gains mental development 
without the greed and desire for 
power over his fellowmen and is 
satisfied to become a mental 
teacher without gain, while these 
come long periods apart, their 
work is lasting and founded on 
truths. This class is very small 
but their work is very large and 
extends into many tribes and na- 
tions. Their teachings tend to 
elevate mankind for good and 
noble acts. Their development is 
the divine seed of God coming to 
its own. 



IIS 



I see the terrible effect of war 
directed by man with mental de- 
velopment, who has retained his 
greed for power and gain over the 
products of the earth, especially 
the fertile fields, the rich coal beds 
and all other rich deposits of ore 
in the earth, that his nation may 
outclass his neighboring nation 
or be able to throw a pittance to 
his surviving followers, with a 
monument for the dead. 

I see the true sufferers of war 
standing beside the monument 
erected on the battlefield to the 
memory of the destroyed, in her 
widow's garb, praying that this 
great calamity on mankind may 
be quickly dissolved by a return 
to the normal, or in her devas- 
tated home caring for the re- 
mains of her family, likely with a 
maimed husband or son to care for 



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the balance of their lives. She is 
the true mental giant of civiliza- 
tion, the power sealing the con- 
tents into one mass; on her it 
rested from the first, no civiliza- 
tion could have been built by man 
alone. The world has had a few 
highly developed men but it has 
been filled by highly developed 
women. She started the struc- 
ture in the cradle, her mind 
has grasped mental development 
much faster than her companion, 
likely for the reason that she has 
been much enslaved through the 
nature of her occupations; she is 
the rock upon which civilization 
stands. She must mend the rents 
caused by war in the ranks of civ- 
ilization. She must and will teach 
the coming generation the hor- 
rors of war and of its terrible 
effects on the destroyed under the 



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present methods. She must teach 
them of the long years required to 
return the mental balance to its 
normal condition, that humanity 
may march again on the divine 
highway. Mothers may have 
bravely given up their loved ones 
when under a mistaken patriot- 
ism or an excited moment, but in 
her silent hours she sees the 
wrong done and commences to 
right it in the sanctuary of the 
cradle. 

I see in the future, the earth 
pass as if into the hollow of God's 
hand and as from his breath, 
miasma blown from the earth's 
surface directed through mental 
science permitting mankind to 
inhabit all parts of the earth even 
into its tropics, thereby blending 
all races and tribes of men in one 
vast melting pot and assembling 



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them into a oneness of God's peo- 
ple, pursuing their mental devel- 
opment under a highly sanitary 
condition of the body, unattain- 
able by man's agreement or 
treaty vows, which can be broken 
at any childish whim. Through 
the laboratory of science man is 
being prepared for mental and 
physical work in all climates, with 
the proper sanitary surround- 
ings, he can continue his mental 
development as well in one part 
of the earth as another. The 
tribes are reunited through the 
removal of the cause that scat- 
tered them. 

In the development of mankind 
we may legitimately borrow some 
glimmering of light by the con- 
templation of the mode in which 
the Creator has been operating 
under analogous combinations of 



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circumstances. From the law of 
progress in creation, established 
and confirmed, as it is by all the 
vitalities that have successively 
come into existence from the be- 
ginning, we may fairly infer that 
when different races of men have 
appeared on the earth, those of 
the lower development have pre- 
ceded those of the higher and 
more perfect organization. The 
advance in the procession of life 
has ever been upward. The his- 
tory of mankind generally up- 
holds this law of nature, the di- 
vine plan of creation. All that 
has taken place on the earth, 
within the knowledge of man, tes- 
tifies that the inferior is ever re- 
ceding and ultimately fades away 
in the presence of the superior 
race. 



CHAPTER VIII 



SEEING MANKIND CLIMB UP THE 

RUNGS TO THE BROAD FIELDS 

OF RELIGION BY MANY 

SHRINES. 



I see, in the material world, the 
operations of the laws of nature 
are constantly disturbed, and will 
expect to find in the mental world 
disturbances equally active. Such 
aberrations proceed in both in- 
stances, from minor laws, which 
at particular points meet the 
larger laws, and thus alter their 
normal action. Of this, the effect 
of the climate affords the most 
striking example, feelings, views 
and reasoning. This is a law 
pregnant with great results; it is 



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connected with those important 
mechanical resources in nature, 
the composition and resolution of 
force; no one acquainted with the 
evidence on which it stands ever 
thought of questioning its truth. 
Still, and although the results of 
the law are incessantly disturbed, 
the law itself remains intact. 
Man's anxiety about his future 
state has induced him to leave 
some records of his experience 
and for the guidance of the com- 
ing generations. These testimo- 
nials show the effect of climatic 
disturbances, and mental devel- 
opment surrounding the instruc- 
tor at the time of his teaching. 

The progress made by man in 
work upon the earth has come 
down to us through his religion or 
governing powers assumed over 
his fellowman, history has given 



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us little else to determine how he 
has grown from the savage into a 
better man. We have no history 
of the plain or common man's 
achievements, his influence upon 
society, what part he has per- 
formed. We know nothing. We 
must assume from his absence in 
history, that the common man in 
all ages of the world, was either a 
commercial slave, a military slave 
or a church slave, one of the three. 
As so little is mentioned in history 
of commerce I am inclined to 
think that commerce must have 
been the master of the other two 
so often mentioned in history, 
which condition is easy for us to 
conclude from the part taken in 
the period through which we have 
had our own personal experience. 
That at all times commerce must 
have been the power behind 



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man's throne and had much to do 
with directing the church other 
than the spiritual benefits re- 
ceived by the members for their 
own elevation; that is, the church 
has been used at times to gather 
the people's earnings in money 
centers far from the donor's dom- 
icile; in fact, too far from him to 
receive any benefits either 
through the society in which he 
lives or to him spiritually. Dona- 
tions made out of man's earnings 
to societies formed for spiritual 
uplifting must be an investment 
on some permanent lines, where- 
by the society fund when planted 
will gather a harvest of the same 
spirit kind as in the donor's spirit 
mind at the time, and not allowed 
to drift into commercial channels 
through investment or beautiful 
architecture in foreign lands. I 



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do not make this as a charge 
against the church of a deliberate 
wrong, but as the result of fol- 
lowing a custom of an ancient re- 
ligion, when the natives believed 
that the head of the church was 
the Supreme Being; although it is 
still practiced, the people have 
grown too enlightened to further 
believe it. What mankind wants 
is more light and they are going 
to have it and are willing to work 
for this great divine blessing. 
What one expects in return for 
his contribution is to be taught of 
his Creator and the wonderful les- 
sons of an everlasting life. When 
he learns this, you have left him 
in the broad highway of life, 
without any knowledge of the 
great laws of his Creator and how 
he is governed by these fixed 
laws. He is in almost as bad a 



^ 12S 

state as he was before, if he is 
unable to further contribute. 
There he stands without a guide 
or helping hand, his offspring 
without a teacher. Chance! A 
time may come when the seed of 
the Creator within him may de- 
velop to such an extent that he 
will see the way and lead himself 
and his offspring along the Crea- 
tor's highway, without further 
assistance from mankind. This 
is a great danger in the pathway 
of the future church. The church 
must render full value to the 
highly civilized man in the con- 
gregation, for they will be com- 
posed of both rich and poor. 

Let us look into archaeology to 
see what we can find, when the 
poor and common man's troubles 
commenced. and how he has been 
treated as a silent factor in the 



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world's development and so little 
credit given by the historian. I 
assume that the common man 
was so generally used as a slave 
of commerce and a bullet stopper 
in war and a small unit in church, 
that he held no place in history. 
Let us take Confucius, the cele- 
brated Chinese philosopher, as his 
teachings are the same as prac- 
ticed by the Chinese people before 
the building of the Great Wall 
and fully put in force after the 
completion of the wall of China. 

Confucianism. Properly, the 
ethico-political system taught by 
him. He sought unsuccessfully 
to remedy the degeneracy and 
oppressions of his time, and to se- 
cure peace and prosperity to the 
empire, by the spread of learning 
and the inculcation of virtue, set- 
ting up as models to imitate, the 



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ancient kings, Yao and Shun, 
about 2356-2204 B. C, who by 
their virtue and the force of their 
individual character, were said to 
have removed evil, poverty and 
ignorance from the empire. The 
system of Confucius was essen- 
tially mundane in its methods and 
aims, being based upon the 
proper discharge of the duties in- 
volved in the five relationships of 
life, namely: those of prince and 
subject, parent and child, brother 
and brother, husband and wife, 
and friend and friend. By many 
Confucianism is called one of the 
three religions of China, the 
others being Taoism and Bud- 
dhism. In this sense the term in- 
cludes both the Confucian scheme 
of ethics and statecraft and the 
ancient native religion, for which 
the name Simism has been pro- 



126 

posed, existent in China from the 
dawn of Chinese history and still 
observed as the state religion. In 
this sense the term also includes 
both the Confucian scheme of 
ethics and statecraft and the 
ancient native religion (for which 
the Simism has been proposed) 
existent in China from the dawn 
of Chinese history, and still ob- 
served as the Supreme Being 
(Shang-ti), the emperor on be- 
half of the people; (2) the wor- 
ship of "the host of spirits," as the 
gods of the winds, of the rivers, 
of the mountains, the grain, etc., 
by the officials and dignitaries; 
and (3) the observance of ances- 
tral worship and filial by all. The 
Doctrine of the Mean by Confu- 
cius, I will give in part from the 
translation by James Legge in 
"Chinese Classics." 



127 

"That Heaven has conferred is 
called the Nature; an accordance 
with this nature is called The 
Path of Duty; the regulation of 
this path is called instruction. 
The Path may not be left for an 
instant. If it could be left it 
would not be the path. Chung-in 
said, The superior man embodies 
the course of the mean; the mean 
man acts contrary to the course 
of the mean. On this account the 
superior man does not wait till he 
sees things, to be cautious, nor 
till he hears things to be appre- 
hensive. There is nothing more 
visible than what is secret, and 
nothing more manifest that what 
is minute, therefore, the superior 
man is watchful over himself 
when he is alone. 

"The master said: There was 
Shun; he indeed was greatly wise! 



128 

Shun loved to question others, 
and to study their words, though 
they might be shallow. He con- 
cealed what was bad in them and 
displayed what was good. He 
took hold of their two extremes, 
determined the mean and em- 
ployed it in his government of the 
people. It was by this that he was 
Shun/ 

While there is no stirring of 
pleasure, anger, sorrow or joy, 
the mind may be said to be in a 
state of EQUILIBRIUM. When 
those feelings have been stirred, 
and they act in their due degree, 
there ensues what may be called 
the state of Harmony. This equi- 
librium is the great root from 
which grow all the human acting 
in the world, and this Harmony 
is the universal path which they 
all should pursue. 



120 

Let the state of Equilibrium 
and Harmony exist in perfection, 
and a happy order will prevail 
throughout heaven and earth, 
and all things will be nourished 
and flourish. 

Chung-na said: "The superior 
man embodies the course of the 
mean; the mean man acts con- 
trary to the course of the mean." 

"The superior man embodying 
the course of the mean is because 
he is a superior man, and so al- 
ways maintain the mean. The 
mean man's acting contrary to 
the course of the mean is because 
he is a mean man and has no cau- 
tion. 

"The master said, Perfect is the 
virtue which is according to the 
Mean ! Rare have they long been 
among the people, who could 
practice it. The Master said, 



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I know how it is that the path of 
the mean is not walked in. The 
knowing go beyond it and the 
stupid do not come up with it. I 
know how it is that the path of the 
mean is not understood; the men 
of talents and virtue go beyond 
it, and the worthless do not come 
up with it." 

"There is nobody but eats and 
drinks. But they are few who 
can distinguish flavors." 

"To show forbearance and gen- 
tleness in teaching others; and 
not to revenge unreasonable con- 
duct; this is the energy of South- 
ern regions, and the good man 
makes it his study 

"To lie under arms; and meet 
death without regret; this is the 
energy of Northern regions, and 
the forceful make it their study. 

"Therefore, the superior man 



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cultivates a friendly harmony 
without being weak. How firm is 
he in his energy! He stands erect 
in the middle, without inclining to 
either side. How firm is he in his 
energy! When good principles 
prevail in the government of his 
country, he does not change from 
what he was in retirement. How 
firm he is in his energy! When 
bad principles prevail in the coun- 
try, he maintains his course to 
death without changing. To live 
in obscurity, and yet practice 
wonders, in order to be mentioned 
with honor in future ages; this is 
what I do not do. Great as heav- 
en and earth are, men still find 
some things in them with which 
to be dissatisfied. Thus it is, that 
were the superior man to speak 
of his way in all its greatness, 
nothing in the world would be 



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found able to embrace it, and 
were he to speak of it in its mi- 
nuteness, nothing in the world 
would be found able to split it." 

"The way of the superior man 
may be found, in its simple ele- 
ments, in the intercourse of com- 
mon men and women; but in its 
utmost reaches it shines brightly 
through heaven and earth. The 
path is not far from man. When 
men try to pursue a course, which 
is far from the common indica- 
tions of consciousness, this course 
can not be considered the path. 
When one cultivates to the ut- 
most the principles of his nature, 
and exercises them and the prin- 
ciples of reciprocity, he is not far 
from the path. What you do not 
like, when done to yourself, do not 
do to others." 

"In the way of the superior man 



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there are four things, to not one 
of which have I as yet attained. 
To serve my father as I would re- 
quire my son to serve me; to this 
I have not attained. To serve my 
prince as I would require my min- 
ister to serve me; to this I have 
not attained. To set the example 
of behaving to a friend as I would 
require him to behave to me; to 
this I have not attained. Earnest 
in practicing the ordinary vir- 
tues, and careful in speaking 
about them, if, in his practice, he 
has anything defective, the supe- 
rior man dares not but exert him- 
self; and, if in his words, he has 
any excess, he dares not allow 
himself such license. Thus his 
words have respect to his actions, 
and his actions have respect to his 
words; is it not just an entire sin- 
cerity which marks the superior 
man?" 



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"The superior man does what is 
proper to the station in which he 
is; he does not desire to go beyond 
this. In a position of wealth and 
honor, he does what is proper to a 
position of wealth and honor. In 
a poor and low position, he does 
what is proper to a poor and low 
position. Situated among bar- 
barous tribes he does what is 
proper to a situation among bar- 
barous tribes. In a position of 
sorrow and difficulty, he does 
what is proper to a position of sor- 
row and difficulty. The superior 
man can find himself in no situa- 
tion in which he is not himself. In 
a high position, he does not treat 
with contempt his inferiors. In a 
low situation, he does not court 
the favor of his superiors. He 
rectifies himself, and seeks for 
nothing from others, so that he 



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has no dissatisfactions. He does 
not murmur against heaven, nor 
grumble against men. Thus it is 
that the superior man is quiet and 
calm, waiting for the appoint- 
ment of Heaven, while the mean 
man walks in dangerous paths, 
looking for lucky occurrences/ ' 

"Happy union with wife and 
children is like the music of lutes 
and harps. When there is concord 
among brethren, the harmony is 
delightful and enduring. Thus 
may you regulate your family, 
and enjoy the pleasure of your 
wife and children." 

"How abundantly do spiritual 
beings display the powers that 
belong to them. We look for 
them, but do not see them; we lis- 
ten to, but do not hear them; yet 
they enter into all things, and 
there is nothing without them. 



136 

The approaches of the spirits, you 
can not surmise; and can you 
treat them with indifference? 
Such is the manifestations of 
what is minute! Such is the im- 
possibility of what is minute! 
Such is the impossibility of re- 
pressing the outgoing of sincer- 
ity." 

"How greatly filial was Shun! 
His virtues was that of a sage; his 
dignity was the imperial throne; 
his riches were all within the four 
seas. He offered his sacrifices in 
his ancestral temple, and his de- 
scendants preserved the sacri- 
fices to him. The admirable, ami- 
able prince displayed conspicu- 
ously his excelling virtue, adjust- 
ing his people and adjusting his 
officers. Therefore, he received 
from Heaven the emoluments of 
dignity. It protected him, as- 



137 

sisted him, decreed him the 
throne; sending from Heaven 
these favors, as it were, repeat- 
edly. We may say, therefore, that 
he who is greatly virtuous will be 
sure to receive the appointment 
of Heaven." 

Confucius lived and gathered 
his philosophy from the Rulers of 
the Chinese people. Little credit 
was given to the mean man. 

For the purpose of establishing 
a perfect society, the authorities 
deemed it necessary to relieve the 
government from the degrading 
and contaminating influence of 
the common or mean man before 
China could hope to become a 
Heaven on earth. The Himalaya 
Mountains and the desert not be- 
ing sufficient to hold them back 
after being cast out, it became 
necessary to build the great wall 



138 

of China to assist in driving them 
away after they were condemned 
and taken to the other side of the 
wall, which the authorities could 
guard much easier than through 
the mountain passes into India 
and likely they became the fol- 
lowers of Buddha whose teach- 
ings bear some striking resem- 
blance to those of Confucius, al- 
though he advocates greater per- 
sonal sacrifice. 

The dogmas of Confucius 
were practiced by the Chinese 
people as far back as their an- 
cient history is recorded, many 
years before the establishment of 
a civilization in Babylonia. The 
Chinese people in a very ancient 
time in their civilization gained a 
crude knowledge of navigation, 
especially as to coastwise travel. 
Their long shore line made it a 



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necessity in this early civilization, 
thus they became the ancient 
mariner in truth. 

The banished from the tem- 
perate zone of China, the bright 
sunshine and her beautiful flow- 
ers, found themselves in a very 
cold and lonely place outside of 
the great wall of China. This 
country, now called Siberia in 
Northern Asia, they found unfit 
for habitation for those who had 
become accustomed to the ancient 
civilization of China and its cli- 
mate, they were unprepared for 
the rigors of the Siberian winters. 
Those who did not escape through 
the Himalaya Mountains into In- 
dia pressed on eastward to the 
sea. From their experience in 
navigation they prepared to ex- 
tract themselves from their ban- 
ishment by the sea. A part fol- 



140 



lowing the coast line south and 
working their way along shore, 
avoiding recapture until they 
came to the African Continent, 
and meeting no resistance, they 
followed the Red Sea and inhab- 
ited the valley of the Nile, where 
they formed the Egyptian civili- 
zation known in history. The bal- 
ance of the people that traveled 
to the east, probably more timid 
than the others, from fear of re- 
capture traveled east by boat 
through the Behring Sea, along 
what we call the Aleutian Islands, 
to the shores of the American 
Continent, thence south along the 
American shores until they came 
to a very mild climate in Central 
America, where they found rich 
fruits to sustain life. Here they 
proceeded to build and establish 
their civilization, the remnants 



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of which were found by Cortez on 
his invasion of Mexico. The arch- 
itecture, the stucco work, the arts 
are direct evidence that they are 
from the same race. The balance 
of these banished people that 
withstood the rigor of the Sibe- 
rian climate passed to the west 
through the mountain ranges to 
the fertile valley of the Euphrates 
river in Babylonia, where they 
joined with Adam in forming the 
Babylonian civilization. 

Under the "Doctrines of the 
Mean," all who did not accept it as 
the law of the "Heavens," and 
without a Creator were held by 
Confucius and his followers as 
"Barbarious" and unfit subjects 
for China. This view was fostered 
until a very recent date. The 
Great Wall of China is the wonder 
of the world, and took long years 



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and years of labor and patience to 
complete the erection. It is the 
largest artificial structure on the 
face of the earth, a barrier ex- 
tending for about fifteen hundred 
miles in the north of China 
proper, of which it partly forms 
the boundary. Its western end is 
in the deserts of Central Asia, a 
desert destructive to life, its east- 
ern boundary reaches the sea to 
the north eastward of Peking. 
The explanation by the Chinese 
rulers for the erection, it was to 
be a barrier against the barbar- 
ous tribes. While the commence- 
ment of its erection is unknown 
to the world, it is known to be in 
existence two hundred fourteen 
years B. C. It is carried over 
height and hollow and avoided no 
inequality of the ground, reach- 
ing in one place the height of five 



148 

thousand feet above the sea. 
Earth, gravel, brick and stone 
were used in its construction, and 
in some places it is much more 
substantial than in others. Its 
greatest average height, includ- 
ing the parapet on its top, is about 
fifty feet, and it is strengthened 
by towers at regular distances. 
On inspection of this great struc- 
ture one is impressed, that the 
progenitors of the architects of 
the world must have been in- 
structed at this great school. The 
lesson we learn from the "Doc- 
trine of the Mean" is the impossi- 
bility of elevating a civilization 
by the process of elimination. 
Under such a process you elimi- 
nate the progressive minds and 
leave the civilization dormant. 
This position is confirmed by Con- 
fucius when he says: 



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"There was Shun; he indeed 
was greatly wise! Shun loved to 
question others, and to study 
their words, though they might be 
shallow. He concealed what was 
bad in them and displayed what 
was good. He took hold of their 
two extremes, determined the 
mean, and employed it in his gov- 
ernment of the people. It was by 
this that he was Shun." He 
further says, "There is nobody 
but eats and drinks. But they are 
few who can distinguish flavors." 
Otherwise but few that can judge. 

Under the teachings of Confu- 
cius the Chinese have long been 
an honorable and honest people in 
spite of their exclusive ideas and 
practice. "To show forbearance 
and gentleness in teaching others 
and not to avenge unreasonable 
conduct." "When one cultivates 



146 

to the utmost the principles of his 
nature, and exercises them on the 
principles of reciprocity, he is not 
far from the path." And further, 
'To set the example in behaving 
to a friend, as I would require him 
to behave to me." I mention 
these, a few of the beautiful les- 
ions of Confucius which, if fol- 
owed would make any man bet- 
ter and wiser. Many of these les- 
ions have some resemblance to 
;hose taught by Christ and still 
^ery different as no mention is 
made of a Creator. 

Buddha in his teachings gath- 
ered much from Confucius philos- 
ophy. Buddha, "The Wise" or the 
Enlightened, the sacred name of 
he founder of Buddhism, an Li- 
lian sage, who appears to have 
ived in the fifth century B. C. His 
personal name was Siddhartha, 



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and his family name Gautama; 
and he is often called Sakya-muni 
from Sakya the name of his tribe, 
and muni, a Sanskrit word mean- 
ing a sage. His father was King 
of Kapilavastu, a few days' jour- 
ney north of Benares. Siddhartha, 
filled with a deep compassion for 
the human race, left his father's 
court and lived for years in soli- 
tude till he had penetrated the 
mysteries of life and become 
Buddha. He then began to teach 
his new faith, in opposition to the 
prevailing Brahmanism, com- 
mencing at Benares. Among his 
earliest converts were the mon- 
archs of Magadha and Kosala, in 
whose kingdom he chiefly passed 
the latter portion of his life, re- 
spected, honored and protected. 
The religious system was founded 
by Buddha. The most prominent 



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doctrines of which is that Nir- 
vana, or an absolute release from 
existence, is the chief good. Ac- 
cording to it, pain is inseparable 
from existence, and consequently 
pain can cease only through Nir- 
vana; and, in order to attain Nir- 
vana our desires and passions 
must be suppressed, the most ex- 
treme self-renunciation prac- 
ticed, and we must, as far as pos- 
sible, forget our own personality. 
In order to attain Nirvana eight 
conditions must be kept or prac- 
ticed. The first is in Buddhistic 
language, right view; the second 
is right judgment; the third is 
right language; the fourth is 
right purpose; the fifth is right 
profession; the sixth is right ap- 
plication; the seventh is right 
memory; the eighth is right medi- 
tation. The five fundamental 



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precepts of the Buddhist moral 
code are: not to kill, not to steal, 
not to commit adultery, not to lie 
and not to give away to drunken- 
ness. To these there are added 
five others of less importance and 
binding more particularly on the 
religious class, such as to abstain 
from repasts taken out of season, 
from theatrical representations, 
etc. There are six fundamental 
virtues to be practiced by all men 
alike, viz.: charity, purity, pa- 
tience, courage, contemplation 
and knowledge. These are the 
virtues that are said to conduct 
the man to the other shore. The 
devotee who strictly practices 
them has not yet attained Nir- 
vana, but is on the road to it. The 
Buddhist virtue of charity is uni- 
versal in its application, extend- 
ing to all creatures and demand- 



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ing sometimes the greatest self- 
denial and sacrifice. There is a 
legend that the Buddha, in one of 
his stages of existence, for it is 
claimed he passed through in- 
numerable transmigrations be- 
fore becoming "the enlightened," 
gave himself up to be devoured by 
a famishing lioness which was 
unable to suckle her young ones. 
We learn of the legends in Sir Ed- 
win Arnold's "Light of Asia," 
from which we gather a knowl- 
edge of Buddha's mental condi- 
tion at the time and his belief in 
former lives through which he 
passed. 

"Long after — when enlightment was come — 
They prayed Lord Buddha touching all, and 

why 
She wore this black and gold, and stepped so 

proud. 
And the world-honored answered, "Not me." 



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This was unknown, albeit it seemed half 

known; 
For while the wheel of birth and death turns 

round, 
Past things and thoughts and buried lives 

come back. 
I now remember, myriad rains ago, 
What time I roamed Himala's hanging woods, 
A tiger, with my striped and hungry kind ; 
I, who am Buddha, crouched in the kusa grass 
Gazing with green blinked eyes upon the 

herds 
Which pastured near and nearer to their 

death. 
Round my day lair ; or underneath the stars 
I roamed for prey, savage, insatiable, 
Sniffing the paths for track of man and deer 
Amid the beasts that were my fellows then, 
Meet in deep jungle or by reedy jheel, 
A tigress, comeliest of the forest, set 
The males at war ; her hide was lit with gold, 
Black broidered like the veil Yasodhara 
Wore for me; hot the strife waxed in that 

wood 
With tooth and claw, while underneath a 

neem 
The fair beast watched us bleed, thus fiercely 

wooed. 
And I remember, at the end she came 



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Snarling past this and that torn forest lord 
Which I had conquered, and with frowning 

jaws 
Licked my quick heaving flank, and with me 

went 
Into the world with proud steps, amorously. 
The wheel of birth and death turns low and 

high." 

A legend may come from the 
abnormal mind of the devotee 
and not be founded on facts. It is 
not my purpose to dwell on them. 
There are other virtues, less im- 
portant, indeed, than the six Car- 
dinal ones, but still binding on be- 
lievers. Thus not only is lying 
forbidden, but evil speaking, 
coarseness of language and even 
vain and frivolous talk must be 
avoided. Buddhist metaphysics 
are comprised in three theories — 
the theory of transmigration, the 
theory of the mutual connection 
of cause, and the theory of Nir- 



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vana. The first requires no ex- 
planation. According to the sec- 
ond, life is the result of twelve 
conditions, which are by turns, 
causes and effect. Thus there 
would be no death were it not for 
birth; it is therefore the effect of 
which birth is the cause. Again, 
there would be no birth were 
there not a continuation of exist- 
ence. Existence has for its cause 
our attachment to things, which 
again has its origin in desire; and 
so on through sensation, contact, 
the organs of sensation and the 
heart, name and form, ideas, etc., 
up to ignorance. This ignorance 
however, is not ordinary igno- 
rance, but the fundamental error 
which cause it to attribute perma- 
nence and reality to things. This, 
then, is the primary origin of ex- 
istence and all its attendant evils. 



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Nirvana or extinction is eternal 
salvation from the evils of exist- 
ence, and the end which every 
Buddhist is supposed to seek. 
Buddha left no writings, we are 
informed that his doctrines were 
written by his disciples after his 
death. 

Let us turn to Brahmanism, a 
religious and social system preva- 
lent among the Hindus, and so- 
called because developed and ex- 
pounded by the sacerdotal caste 
known as the Brahman. It is 
founded on the ancient religious 
writings known as the Vedas and 
regarded as sacred revelations, 
of which the Brahmans as a body 
became custodians and interpre- 
ters, being also the officiating 
priests and the general directors 
of sacrifices and religious rites. 
As the priestly caste increased in 



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numbers and power, they went on 
elaborating the ceremonies and 
added to the Vedas other writings 
tending to confirm the excessive 
pretentions of the new predomi- 
nant caste, and give them the 
sanction of a revelation. The 
earliest supplements to the Vedas 
are the Brahmanas, more fully 
explaining the functions of the 
officiating priests. Both together 
form the revealed Scripture of 
the Hindus. In time the caste of 
Brahman came to be accepted as 
a divine institution, and an elab- 
orate system of rules defining and 
enforcing by the severest penal- 
ties its place, as well as the in- 
ferior castes, was promulgated. 
Other early castes were the 
Kshattriyas or warriors, and the 
Vaisyas or cultivators, and it was 
not without a struggle that the 



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former recognized the superior- 
ity of the Brahmans. It was by 
the Brahmans that the Sanskrit 
literature was developed; and 
they were not only the priests, 
theologians and philosophers, but 
also the poets, men of science, 
lawgivers, administrators, and 
statesmen of the Aryana of India. 
The sanctity and inviolability 
of Brahman are maintained by 
severe penalties. The murder of 
one of the order, robbing him, 
etc., are inexplicable sins; even 
the killing of his cow can only be 
expiated by a painful penance. A 
Brahman should pass through 
four states: First, as Brahmach- 
ari, or novice, he begins the study 
of the sacred Vedas and is initi- 
ated into the privileges and the 
duties of his caste. He has a 
right to alms, to exemption from 



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taxes and from capital and even 
corporal punishment. Flesh and 
eggs he is not allowed to eat. 
Leather, skins of animals, and 
most animals themselves are im- 
pure and not to be touched by 
him. When manhood comes he 
ought to marry and as Grihastha 
enter the second state, which re- 
quires more numerous and min- 
ute observances. When he has 
begotten a son and trained him 
up for the holy calling he ought 
to enter the third state, and as 
Vanaprastha, or inhabitant of 
the forest, retire from the world 
for solitary praying and medita- 
tion, with severe penances to pur- 
ify the spirit; but this and the 
fourth or last state of a Sannyasi; 
requiring a cruel degree of ascet- 
icism, are now seldom reached, 
and the whole scheme is to be re- 



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garded as representing rather 
the Brahmanical ideal of life than 
the actual facts. 

The worship in the oldest Vedic 
literature is that of natural ob- 
jects; the sky, personified in the 
God of Indra; the dawn, in Ushas; 
the various attributes of the sun, 
in Vishnu, Surya, Aqui, etc. These 
gods were invoked for assistance 
in the common affairs of life, and 
were propitiated by offerings 
which, at first, few and simple, 
afterwards became more compli- 
cated and included animal sacri- 
fices. In the later Vedic hymns a 
philosophical conception of relig- 
ion and the problem of being and 
creation appears struggling into 
existence, and this tendency is 
systematically developed by the 
supplements and commentaries 
known as the Brahmanas and the 



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Upanishads. In some of the 
Upanishads the deities of the old 
Vedic creed are treated as sym- 
bolical. Brahman, the supreme 
soul, is the only reality, the world 
is regarded as an emanation from 
him, and the highest good of the 
soul is to become united with the 
divine. The necessity for the pur- 
ification of the soul in order to its 
reunion with the divine nature 
gave rise to the doctrine of me- 
tempsychosis or transmigration. 

The philosophical development 
of Brahmanism gave rise to a dis- 
tinct separation between the edu- 
cated and the vulgar creed. 
Whilst from the fifth to the first 
century B. C, the higher thinkers 
amongst the Brahmans were de- 
veloping a philosophy which rec- 
ognized that there was but one 
God, the popular creed had con- 



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centrated its ideas of worship 
around three great deities — 
Brahma, Vishnu and Siva, who 
now took the place of the con- 
fused old Vedic Pantheon. Brah- 
ma, the Creator, though consid- 
ered the most exalted of the 
three, was too abstract an idea to 
become a popular god and soon 
sank almost out of notice. Thus 
the Brahmans became divided 
between Vishnu, the preserver, 
and Siva, the destroyer and re- 
producer, and the worshippers of 
these two deities now form the 
two great religious sects of India. 
Siva, in his philosophical signifi- 
cance, is the deity mostly wor- 
shipped by the conventional 
Brahman, while in his aspect of 
the Destroyer, or in one of his fe- 
male manifestations, he is the 
god of the low castes, and often 



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worshipped with degrading rites. 
But the highly cultivated Brah- 
man is still a pure theist, and the 
educated Hindu in general pro- 
fesses to regard the special deity 
he chooses for worship as merely 
a form under which the One First 
Cause may be approached. 

The sharp division of the peo- 
ple of India into civilized Aryans 
and non- Aryans has had a great 
influence upon Brahmanism, and 
thus the spiritual conceptions of 
the old Vedic creed have been 
mixed in modern Hinduism with 
degrading superstitions and cus- 
toms belonging to the so-called 
aboriginal races. Suttee, for ex- 
ample, or the burning of the 
widows, has no authority in the 
Veda, but like most of the darker 
features of Hinduism is the result 
of a compromise which the Brah- 



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manical teachers had to make 
with the barbarous conceptions of 
the non- Aryan races in India. The 
Buddhist religion has also had an 
important influence on the Brah- 
manic. 

The system of caste originally 
no doubt represented distinctions 
of race. The early classification 
of the people was that of "twice- 
born" Aryans (priests, warriors, 
husbandman) and "once-born" 
non- Aryans (serfs), but inter- 
marriages, giving rise to a mixed 
progeny, and the variety of em- 
ployments in modern times, have 
profoundly modified the simple 
classification. Innumerable mi- 
nor distinctions have grown up, 
so that amongst the Brahmans 
alone there are several hundred 
castes who can not intermarry or 
eat food cooked by each other. 



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The Brahmans represent the 
highest culture of India, and as 
the result of centuries of educa- 
tion and self-restraint have 
evolved a type of man distinctly 
superior to the castes around 
them. They have still great influ- 
ence, and occupy the highest 
places at the courts of princes. 
Many, however, are driven by 
need or other motives into trades 
and employments inconsistent 
with the original character of 
their caste. 

Moses, as a teacher, his lesson 
and history is so well known that 
it is unnecessary to mention him. 
The distress of the people in the 
desert, the conflicts with hostile 
races, the jealousies of the elders, 
endangered the authority and 
even his life, despite the miracu- 
lous attestations of his mission. 



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During the term of the encamp- 
ment at Sinai he is said to have 
received the Ten Command- 
ments, which speak for them- 
selves, and also the code laws for 
the regulation of the lives of the 
Israelites which are known and 
given to the world for the eleva- 
tion of mankind. The wander- 
ings of Moses had much to do with 
his preparation as a teacher and 
leader of men, this experience 
started the growth of the divine 
essence within him and his eyes 
were opened to the purpose of this 
life. 

Jesus in the part of his life of 
which we have no written ac- 
count, must have traveled very 
extensively, and gained a great 
fund of knowledge, which 
brought about the awakening of 
his duty in this life, even as the 



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Christ, these absent years must 
have been used in some prepara- 
tory work to have given to the 
world such matchless lessons and 
a faultless life, a life of simplicity 
and kindness, free from caste, 
opening to all mankind the way 
to approach the Creator. The dis- 
appointment of Jesus refusing to 
become the King of the Jewish 
people was so great that after he 
was crucified many of these peo- 
ple looked for another leader to 
take the place of Moses. As these 
people were disappointed in their 
expectations, Mohammad or Mo- 
hammed, the founder of Islam- 
ism, appeared as a teacher in five 
hundred and seventy-one A. D. 
Mohammed was an Arabian by 
birth, of the tribe of the Koreish, 
and was born of poor parents. His 
parents died early, and he was 



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brought up by his uncle, Alu 
Talib, who trained him to com- 
merce, and with whom he jour- 
neyed through Arabia and Syria. 
In his twenty-fifth year his uncle 
recommended him as an agent to 
a rich widow, named Chadidja, 
and he acquitted himself so much 
to her satisfaction that she mar- 
ried him, and thus placed him in 
easy circumstances. He seems to 
have had from his youth a pro- 
pensity to religious contempla- 
tion, for he was accustomed every 
year in the month of Ramadhan, 
to retire to a cave in Mount Hara, 
near Mecca, and dwell there in 
solitude. By Christians his creed 
is known as Mohammedanism. 
His followers call their creed 
Islam (entire submission to the 
decrees of God), and their com- 
mon formula of faith is, "There 



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is no god but Allah, and Moham- 
med is his prophet." The dog- 
matic or theoretical part of Mo- 
hammedanism embraces the fol- 
lowing points: First, "Belief in 
Allah, who is without beginning 
or end, the sole Creator and Lord 
of the universe, having absolute 
power, knowledge, glory and per- 
fection. Second, Belief in his an- 
gels, who are impeccable beings 
created of light. Third, Belief in 
good and evil Jinu (genii), who 
are created of smokeless fire and 
are subject to death. Fourth, Be- 
lief in the Holy Scriptures, which 
are his uncreated word revealed 
to the prophets. Of those there 
now exists, but in a greatly cor- 
rupted form, the Pentateuch, the 
Psalms, and the Gospels; and in 
an uncorrupted and incorruptible 
state, the Koran, which abrogates 



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and surpasses all preceding rev- 
elations. Fifth, Belief in God's 
prophets and apostles, the most 
distinguished of whom are Adam, 
Noah, Abraham, Jesus and Mo- 
hammed. Mohammed is the 
greatest of them all, the last of 
the prophets and the most excel- 
lent of the creatures of God. 
Sixth, Belief in a general resur- 
rection and final judgment, and 
in future rewards and punish- 
ments, chiefly of a physical na- 
ture. Seventh, The belief, even to 
the extent of fatalism of God's 
absolute foreknowledge and pre- 
destination of all events both 
good and evil." 

The practical part of Moham- 
medanism inculcates certain ob- 
servances or duties, of which four 
are most important. The first is 
prayer, including preparatory 



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purifications. Prayer must be en- 
gaged in at five stated periods 
each day. On each of these occa- 
sions the Moslem has to offer up 
certain prayers held to be or- 
dained by his prophets. During 
prayer it is necessary that the 
face of the worshipper be turned 
towards the kibla, that is, in the 
direction of Mecca. Prayers may 
be said in any clean place, but on 
Friday they must be said in the 
mosque. Second in importance to 
prayer stands the duty of giving 
alms. Next comes the duty of 
fasting. The Moslem must ab- 
stain from eating and drinking, 
and from every indulgence of the 
senses, every day during the 
month of Ramadhan, from the 
first appearance of daybreak un- 
til sunset, unless physically inca- 
pacitated. The fourth para- 



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mount religious duty of the Mos- 
lem is the performance at least 
once in his life, if possible, of the 
pilgrimage ( el-Had j) to Mecca, 
after which he becomes a Hadji. 
Circumcision is general among 
Mohammedans, but it is not abso- 
lutely obligatory. The distinc- 
tions of clean and unclean meats 
are nearly the same as in the 
Mosaic code. Wine and all intox- 
icating liquors are strictly for- 
bidden. Music, games of chance 
and usury are condemned. Im- 
ages and pictures of living crea- 
tures are contrary to law. Char- 
ity, probity in all transactions, 
veracity (except in a few cases), 
and modesty are indispensable 
virtues. After Mohammed's death 
who should become his successor 
led to a division of the Mohamme- 
dans into the two sects known as 



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Shilites and Sunnites. The for- 
mer, the believers in the right of 
Ali to be considered the first suc- 
cessor, constitute at present the 
majority of the Mussulmans of 
Persia and India; the latter, con- 
sidered as the orthodox Moham- 
medans, are dominant in the 
Ottoman Empire, Arabia, Turk- 
estan and Africa. 

In this review of the great 
lights of this life, it is not my pur- 
pose to overlook the lesser lights, 
but these mentioned have attract- 
ed the larger following and more 
lasting than those we call lesser 
lights. Neither is it my purpose 
to criticize any of these creeds I 
have mentioned. My sole and 
only desire is to determine wheth- 
er it is possible for mankind to 
develop the spark of the divine 
within him faster than the devel- 



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opment made under these teach- 
ers. We can only determine the 
fruits of the harvest of any one 
of them, by the mental condition 
and also the physical power of 
their followers. I further greatly 
desire to know fully in my own 
mind that I am following the 
right guide to this life, for we all 
have been warned. "Take heed 
that no man deceive you, for 
many shall come in my name, say- 
ing I am Christ; and shall deceive 
many." 

From the instructors of the 
world, we must look for a cause in 
its slow or fast development. 
Their shortcomings will have a 
great effect on the man who 
allows himself to be influenced by 
the mental thoughts of his mas- 
ter, his development will be ac- 
cording to the master's wishes 



1?2 



and creed. He receives the mas- 
ter's thoughts without question, 
he does not even ask himself 
whether the creed of the master 
is the broad way to eternal life 
or upon a narrow by-way? He 
does not ask himself if this creed 
is supported by the evidence with- 
in his own intelligence? Does the 
doctrine conform with the divine 
laws of nature all about one's 
existence? Under an analysis by 
the divine laws we call nature's 
laws, we must conclude that many 
of these creeds have violated 
nature's laws, especially as to the 
effect on the elevation of man- 
kind from his humble estate to 
the higher and better man, both 
mentally and physically, from 
youth to old age, and followed by 
the higher generations of man- 
kind. Our analysis in many cases 



m 

will show that the subject has vio- 
lated the teachings of his master 
and become a savage again. This 
can be no fault of the master. 

Let us analyze the teachings of 
Confucius. His philosophy seemed 
to be founded upon the experi- 
ence of the rulers of the people 
for hundred of years before him. 
All that did not accept the creed 
were banished, the result of these 
methods was a civilization full of 
honest and industrious people, 
but they received no knowledge 
gained by other nations. In fact, 
China became a hermit Empire, 
until recent years, when the force 
of the world's civilization rent the 
barriers. The upward tendency 
of the Chinese civilization, for a 
long time has been imperceptible. 
The elimination or suppression 
of the natural tendency of man- 



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kind towards development into 
the higher man of the masses, 
caused disintegration of the men- 
tal force, thus we see the Chinese 
civilization floating like a de- 
relict. 

No civilization can obtain a full 
success without the recognition 
of a Creator and the assistance 
through this, the divine purpose. 
Confucius knew "the path of 
duty," and that "the regulation of 
this path is called instruction." 
Was instruction given to the Chi- 
nese people as a people? Was the 
young given instruction? They 
were told that "the path may not 
be left for an instant," were they 
shown the path and told how to 
keep on it as an intelligent man? 
I quite agree with Confucius that 
if it "could be left, it would not be 
the path." The path to eternal 



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life is broad enough for all, so 
that it is entirely unnecessary for 
the latter-day religions to wander 
from the path to create a follow- 
ing. All mankind knows the path 
when he uses his mind to locate it. 
The neglect of early civilization 
to train the mind from the birth 
seems to have been the greatest 
weakness of the early civilization 
and one of the causes of their slow 
development and early decay. 
This neglect has not yet been 
overcome, although there has 
been some improvement. Force 
must be turned upon the young 
minds of the world to increase the 
mental development. Jealousy 
will prevent this being done ex- 
cept by womankind. 

In Buddhism, in order to to at- 
tain "Nirvana/' our desires and 
passions must be suppressed, the 



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most extreme self-renunciation 
practiced, and we must, as far as 
possible, forget our own person- 
ality. If all mankind in the world 
should attain Nirvana, love would 
fly away, development would stop, 
man would become a hermit, the 
fields would become a desert 
waste. The divine laws of the 
Creator would be inoperative. 
Man must follow the purpose of 
this life, he must use the talents 
given him by the Creator, and not 
waste the time allotted to him for 
his life upon earth. 

In Brahmanism, we have evi- 
dence that the Vedas was added 
to and developed by the priests, 
theologians and philosophers 
which is an acknowledgment on 
its face of imperfection or greed 
of the sacredotal caste. The evi- 
dence of the civilization devel- 



m 

oped under it, point strongly to 
the latter fact. Castes have 
thrown a shadow over the earth 
that we have not yet passed out 
from under. 

I will say nothing further about 
Mohammed as his religion was 
promulgated after the coming of 
Christ, just as were many other 
dogmas. 

"Verily, verily, I say unto thee, 
except a man be born of water 
(solids) and of the Spirit, he can 
not enter into the Kingdom of 
God. That which is born of the 
flesh is flesh; and that which is 
born of the Spirit is spirit. Mar- 
vel not that I said unto thee, ye 
must be born again. The wind 
bloweth where it listeth, and thou 
hearest the sound thereof, but 
canst not tell whence it cometh, 
and whither it goeth; so is every 



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one that is born of the Spirit." 
These are words of authority 
spoken by Jesus, and are so true 
to life, that no one can doubt their 
truth who has had any experience 
in mental and physical develop- 
ment. However, what evidence 
have we that he had the authority 
to utter such words? The proph- 
ets foretold of his coming and the 
wise men expected him. We also 
have the testimony of John. "The 
next day John seeth Jesus coming 
unto him and saith, Behold the 
Lamb of God, which taketh away 
the sin of the world. And John 
bare record, saying I saw the 
Spirit descending from heaven 
like a dove, and it abode upon him 
(Jesus). And I saw and bare 
record that this is the Son of 
God." Then we have the testi- 
mony of Paul, he says, "Grace be 



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unto you, and peace from God our 
Father, and from the Lord Jesus 
Christ. I thank my God always 
on your behalf, for the grace of 
God which is given you by Jesus 
Christ." Many others I might 
add to this direct evidence, but 
the best evidence is the life he 
lived and the great lessons he 
gave to mankind, no other can be 
found that is his equal. "And lo, a 
voice from heaven, saying, This 
is my beloved Son, in whom I am 
well pleased." We have the warn- 
ing of Jesus Christ. "It is written, 
man shalt not live by bread alone, 
but by every word that proceed- 
eth out of the mouth of God." 
"Verily, I say unto you, whosoever 
shall not receive the Kingdom of 
God as a little child, he shall not 
enter therein." His beautiful 
words are the greatest guide to 
life eternal. 



CHAPTER IX. 



THE BLACK MAN'S STRUGGLE WITH 
CIVILIZATION. 



I am still very far from the time 
when it is possible for me to re- 
duce, by the operation of thought 
the divine purpose of the creation 
of the negro race, who has existed 
so long unchanged in Africa. He 
is not a mere Aboriginal; this I 
can not perceive by the senses 
after long years of study of the 
race. They have not yielded to 
absorption like other aboriginal 
races. The question is a very per- 
plexing one, and it may even be 
doubted if a victory of the solu- 
tion of the divine purpose can 
ever be achieved in the field of 



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natural philosophy. We must be 
satisfied with the solution by some 
other method much longer than 
has been practiced in the develop- 
ment of other aboriginal races. 

After long years of coming in 
contact with the black man forced 
into civilization by slavery, I am 
satisfied that mentally the black 
man has within his mental cycle 
more or less, the essence of the 
Creator; although it has been dor- 
mant, in darkness, for thousands 
of years. The sole cause is lassi- 
tude. The climate may have had 
something to do with the slow 
mental growth. The story of a 
noble black man will throw much 
light on what can be done when 
ambition is created through en- 
vironment. Durham in the year 
1802, was a boy living with his 
parents in the Congo River Val- 



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ley. His father was the King of a 
negro tribe in Africa. This tribe 
was composed of people with very 
large stature; they were above 
the average men in height, and 
very kindly disposed. There never 
had been a murder in the tribe 
within the memory of man. This 
young son of the king was about 
fifteen years old, as near as could 
be ascertained by the crude meth- 
ods of counting time in use 
among the tribe, through the 
passing of the sun overhead in 
midsummer. The mother told 
him he had seen fifteen passings 
of the sun. The tropic climate 
had developed him into the size 
of a man. He knew no language 
except the guttural tongue spok- 
en by his people. He had no 
brothers, but possessed great love 
for his mother and his two sisters. 



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They enjoyed many pleasant 
hours within the correl, the seat 
of government for the little 
kingdom. No one of the tribe 
ever left their hunting ground, 
except the king and one or two of 
his great men, who traded with 
some Egyptian town; of these ex- 
periences Durham knew little. 
He remembered that on one occa- 
sion his father on his return gave 
him a hunting knife, which was 
not only his pride but the pride of 
the tribe. The tropical forest sup- 
plied them with abundance of 
game; life was easily sustained 
with very little labor, the rivers 
were full of fish, a breech clout 
supplied the clothing, which was 
made from the skins of the wild 
beasts of the forest. This young 
prince of the forest was raised in 
this scant attire, with no instruc- 



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tions as to labor, no one in the 
tribe labored or thought it neces- 
sary to better their condition; 
they knew nothing of ambition or 
honest toil. Under these environ- 
ments this son of the forest had 
grown almost to manhood; he had 
never seen a missionary nor 
heard the church bell. He knew 
nothing of priest or preacher, he 
had never heard of a Creator, 
had not even thought it was nec- 
essary in the creation of the 
world. He knew nothing of 
Christ or his work upon the earth. 
Christ's teachings had never pen- 
etrated these dense forests. He 
knew not shame at the exposure 
of his person, he had never seen 
any one that knew of civilization, 
he never knew that man navi- 
gated the sea, he knew nothing 
of fire arms, of teaching, of les- 



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sons, of books, of letters, of writ- 
ing, he was just a child of nature. 
One day this young prince of 
the forest, seeking pleasure with 
his hunting knife, left his house 
and traveled up the river toward 
the great pool, some distance 
from home in search of game; 
after wandering a long ways he 
saw coming through the under- 
brush, a young gazelle after 
water. He secreted himself be- 
hind a large tree and as it passed 
he slew it with his hunting knife. 
He was truly a happy hunter as 
he turned homeward with his first 
capture. His burden, he carried 
with the ease of a giant. He had 
no thought of danger, he knew no 
enemy except the wild beasts of 
the forest. To avert this danger 
he followed the wash of the river, 
which had left an open way as the 



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stream was at low mark. Having 
returned about half the way- 
home, he was thrown upon his 
back by some great weight on his 
burden he carried. Before he 
could recover himself, he was 
seized by four strong men. He 
looked at them; he could not un- 
derstand; they were white men. 
He had never seen white men be- 
fore; no, he had never before 
heard of white men, did not 
know that they even existed, 
but they were men just the 
same. Surely they would not 
harm him? With this thought in 
his mind he concluded not to 
struggle against their numbers. 
Chains were fastened upon his 
wrists and ankles, then he was 
placed on his feet, his game was 
thrown upon his shoulders, with a 
man on each side holding his 



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arms, he was made to understand 
he must walk with his shackles 
the best he could. He could not 
understand the language they 
spoke, but followed their direc- 
tions the best he could. After fol- 
lowing the river about a mile they 
came to a house located on the 
river; he was later informed it 
was a boat. He was thrown into 
the boat on his back, his shackles 
were chained to the boat. There 
were a number of men on the 
boat when he was received, his 
captors returned to the forest and 
he heard them come on the boat at 
dark. In the morning on the re- 
turn of daylight, he knew that the 
boat had moved far down the 
river from the place they occu- 
pied yesterday. This he could tell 
from his knowledge of the river. 
The boat lay for a number of days 



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along the river but the hunters 
never returned with any of his 
people. One night the men all re- 
turned and spread great drab 
sheets overhead. The next morn- 
ing the river had grown so wide 
that the prisoner could just see 
the land on one side; the boat he 
was in lay alongside a very much 
larger one. He was thrown out of 
the small one on the deck of the 
ship where the captain examined 
him from head to foot. He exam- 
ined his eyes, his teeth, his mus- 
cles, his height was taken. This 
captain was a desperate-looking 
man with a cruel face. When this 
ordeal was over, Durham was 
shoved under an awning and fast- 
ened to a long chain which held 
many more negroes, all in native 
garb. Their food was thrown on 
the deck, which they gathered up 



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as best they could with the chains 
on them. The crew seemed to be 
composed of wild beasts; their 
conduct toward the captives was 
very cruel. Durham soon learned 
that he was unable to talk with 
any of the captives as they did 
not understand his language. 
Many of them were able to com- 
municate but the language was 
strange to him. On the next day, 
while the crew was at mess, an old 
negro approached Durham. He 
was very tall, bent with age or 
work; he spoke to him in his own 
tongue, he spoke very kindly and 
respectfully. He told Durham 
that he was a captive on a slave 
ship, and that he would never see 
his home again, that Durham was 
the first of his own race that he 
had seen for many years, never 
since he had been confined on this 



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ship, where he served as the ship's 
cook. He advised him to obey 
orders, but never learn to be a 
sailor if he hoped to go ashore and 
run the chance of getting with a 
good master. He also said that 
the captain had on shipboard two 
instructors in language, one for 
Spanish and one for English, that 
if a man with a long black mus- 
tache came to him and com- 
menced to point to objects and 
call them names, that he was to 
be so dumb that he could not un- 
derstand; when the time came 
that he called the old cook, the 
cook would tell him that he never 
would learn Spanish; then he 
would be turned over to the Eng- 
lish instructor. When this oppor- 
tunity came, he must work hard 
to master everything he told him. 
If he could learn English he 



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would stand a better chance for a 
good master. He must tell no one 
of the conversation. He followed 
the instructions of the old negro 
to good advantage, as the slave 
ship cruised up and down the 
African coast for months to come. 
The raiders brought in many cap- 
tives from day to day. They were 
all the time on the lookout for 
other ships, as the captain was 
careful to avoid meeting any one 
at sea. After a long time, when 
the ship was well loaded with 
slaves, they stood off the shore of 
Africa far south of the equator. 
One morning very early, full sail 
was set and a course westward 
was taken and followed for many 
days. It is unnecessary to men- 
tion the suffering of these unfor- 
tunate people. 
After two or three months, as 



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they drifted in a fog they came to 
land. Durham's instructor in- 
formed him that it was South 
America. For many days they 
worked the coast traveling north 
and disposing of their slaves 
along the shore. In the West In- 
dies, all the Spanish-speaking 
slaves were disposed of, leaving a 
small number among which was 
our young Durham, who had be- 
come fairly proficient in speaking 
English. Again they set sail out 
in mid-ocean, avoiding all ship- 
ping. One day a small boat came 
along side, one man came on 
board, conferred with the captain 
for a little while and then left the 
ship. The ship lay in a fogbank. 
Just before sunset a fair breeze 
filled the sails and after dark 
they entered a harbor of great 
beauty. The old cook told Dur- 



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ham that they were entering the 
Chesapeake Bay and would soon 
come to the city of Baltimore. The 
ship kept as far from all shipping 
as possible; about eleven o'clock 
they passed a large number of 
ships at anchor, the city was 
passed, when they came to a 
wooden dock, made fast, and 
from a gang plank all the remain- 
ing slaves fastened to a chain, 
were marched off the ship and 
taken in charge by men on shore. 
Immediately the ship released her 
fastenings and was lost in the 
darkness. 

Their new masters conducted 
them to a large building which 
proved to be a warehouse, where 
they spent the night. In the 
morning Durham was awakened 
by a voice, the voice of a child, 
clear and sweet, singing the first 



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song he had ever heard. As he 
raised his naked body from his 
bed of straw, he felt the chill of 
an early spring morning in the 
north. The first song sounded to 
him strange. He never was quite 
sure just what the words were. It 
may have been something like 
this: 

Lead, kindly light, amid th' encircling gloom, 
Lead Thou me on! The night is dark, 
And I am far from home : lead Thou me on ! 
Keep Thou my feet ; I do not ask to see, 
The distant scene; one step e-nough for me. 

More likely it was "My Mary- 
land/' on account of the period 
leading up to the war with the 
Mother Country in 1812: 

Hark to an exiled son's appeal Maryland, my 

Maryland, 
My mother state to thee I kneel! Maryland, 

my Maryland. 



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For life and death, for woe and weal ; 
Thy peerless chivalry reveal, 
And gird they beauteous limbs with steel, 
Maryland, my Maryland. 

For one or two months the cap- 
tives were driven by an overseer's 
lash until the great sale day in the 
market. The day was fine, the 
slaves were plentiful, the pur- 
chasers were numerous and stood 
in groups around the slave block, 
while the auctioneer announced 
the name of the slave, his age, his 
height, his capacity for work and 
the condition of his health. As 
the day passed, the purchasers, 
when satisfied, left with their hu- 
man purchasers. As the crowd 
began to grow less in numbers, 
the auctioneer announced "that 
he yet held the very best bargain 
of the day and would offer him 
last." At this time a highlander 



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entered the group of purchasers; 
his dress was of a frontiersman's 
garb. He looked much fatigued 
from travel. He seemed to be 
acquainted with quite a number 
of the groups who asked him, 
"how he liked the western coun- 
try?" He replied to them "that it 
was far better than he expected, 
and that he expected to return 
when he had made a few pur- 
chases he might need." The con- 
versation was stopped by the auc- 
tioneer's announcement that he 
would make the last offer of the 
day. "Negro Durham, twenty- 
six years old, an experienced 
farmer, a good foreman, six feet 
six inches tall, made as you see 
him, without a blemish, perfect 
health, how much am I offered for 
black Durham?" The first bid 
seemed very low; the auctioneer 



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stormed and worked to excite the 
purchasers. He had received his 
tenth bid, when he turned to the 
highlander and said, "Come, 
Scotchy, give me a bid." The man 
raised the last bid ten dollars and 
the slave was knocked down to 
him. He did not suspect that this 
giant was just from the wilds of 
Africa, with his clean, unbleached 
linen clothes. The highlander 
paid his bid and turned to the 
blackman and said, 

"My man, I have purchased 
your body, but not your soul. I 
am a frontiersman living in the 
great forests of the west. Follow 
me and I will do the best within 
my power for you." 

Durham did not understand 
all that was said to him, but 
his spirit turned to this kind man 
and he loved him with all his 



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heart. They had walked a very 
short distance when the master 
observed the irons upon the 
wrists when he called to the auc- 
tioneer to unlock them. When 
done, the master wondered why 
the wrists were so rough, but said 
nothing. He surmised that they 
had been on for months. 

They first went to the stable 
where the master's horse was 
kept. Here it did not take long 
to discover that Durham knew 
nothing about a horse; his 
master taught him how to feed 
and care for the fine animal, 
which he did with willing hands. 
Durham's obedience was perfect 
in everything; he seemed to be 
anxious to learn and would re- 
member the instructions, never 
seeming to forget. After a num- 
ber of days of trading by the mas- 



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ter, he told Durham that in the 
morning at day, they would start 
for the west, a journey of over 
seven hundred miles. The next 
morning before sunrise they 
started for the west via the old 
Tennessee trail, the master on 
horseback with a load of pack- 
ages, Durham following on foot 
with part of the burden. The first 
night or two they obtained shelter 
but after that they camped in the 
forest. 

After the camp life commenced 
the master inquired of Durham 
about his past life and received a 
full and frank account up to the 
day of sale, about as above re- 
lated. When he had finished his 
master promised to become his in- 
structor. On this journey Dur- 
ham learned the use of firearms 
and readily became a good 



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marksman; he learned camp 
cooking as by nature, his skill in 
preparing game was unexcelled. 
While his master rested the horse 
for the day he filled the camp with 
fresh game. When his master 
told him of God, he listened with 
wonder and asked many ques- 
tions, and when he was told of the 
coming of Christ and his wonder- 
ful teachings, he said to his mas- 
ter how thankful he was to re- 
ceive this knowledge; he never 
could have gained it in his savage 
state. His face expressed his 
great joy and the comfort in these 
teachings. At night, by the 
camp fire, the master would read 
to him the lessons of Christ and he 
was always very attentive. After 
many days of travel, the master 
said to him one morning when 
they were ready for travel, while 



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they faced the west with the ris- 
ing sun at their backs, 

"Durham, from what you have 
told me about your life you must 
not be over seventeen years old, 
in the mental world you are a 
mere infant, but if possible I 
would like for you to remember 
what I say to you." The frontiers- 
man turned his horse across the 
way, faced himself to the west. 

"Durham, do you see the broad 
way cut through the forest free 
from trees, like a great highway 
constructed for the convenience 
of mankind? This highway was 
in existence when the first white 
man came to this country and 
found it inhabited by the Indians. 

"The Indians say of this great 
highway, 'that when their fathers 
came to this country seeking a 
hunting-ground a very long time 



202 



ago, in fact it has become a tradi- 
tion among their people, even 
then, the highway was in exist- 
ence, that it was built by the 
Spirit Father as a guide into the 
hunting fields/ 

"Even the forest has respected 
the ground as sacred, for you can 
see from where you stand, clear 
lines of the way. I have traveled 
it to the Mississippi River and it 
shows the evidence of a great 
highway all the way. It evidently 
must have been built by some pre- 
historic race of mankind un- 
known to us. This landmark must 
have been left for some purpose, 
to guide some civilized race of 
men into the wilderness, to fulfill 
some wise purpose of the Creator. 

"By some means man became 
possessed of an idea to form a 
government where all men would 



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be equal in their personal rights, 
as given them by the Creator, as 
the feeling of many had become 
so fixed in their minds that all 
could not have the opportunity 
under the old civilization to de- 
velop their natural talents. As 
the feeling grew into a mighty 
force, this young government was 
formed for the express purpose of 
developing such a civilization; 
that all races and all walks of life 
might be blended together, in- 
grafting the best mental powers 
in a race of ambitious people and 
thereby produce an elevated civ- 
ilization. 

"Why, Durham, in your own 
case, you are of a race that has 
had little or no experience in civil- 
ization and know nothing of its 
advantages. It will take a long 
time for your people to receive 



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what is just and due them from 
time to time, but by patience it 
will come, likely not in your or my 
time, but the reward is sure to 
come if pursued to the end. The 
force behind the new govern- 
ment believes the battle is waged 
for the right and all its advocates 
will do their part. I expect to do 
my part. I am satisfied you will 
do yours." 

"My master, as I know it, I will 
do my part with patience." "Well 
done, Durham, I will help you." 

"It will now be necessary for us 
to leave the guiding path and 
turn into the wilderness, go by 
the mountain passes down into 
the state of Kentucky where our 
work is awaiting us and also my 
little family is now in the wilder- 



ness." 



The travelers turned aside into 



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a rough, mountainous country, 
heavily wooded and thick un- 
derbrush. They passed through 
the town of Versailles and about 
sunset on a high hill overlooking 
the surrounding country in the 
thick forest they came to a cabin. 
They were welcomed by the wife 
and the one-year-old male child. 
The negro housekeeper, one of 
those wonderful works of the 
Creator, prepared a meal fit for 
the occasion of the masters's re- 
turn. 

After a few days of rest, the 
master commenced the lessons of 
teaching Durham to become a 
frontier farmer and he found him 
a very apt scholar. Five years of 
this kind of instructions placed 
him as the foreman of his mas- 
ter's farm. He was faithful, will- 
ing and proficient. He endeared 



206 

himself with the whole family, 
and especially with the son; they 
became almost constant compan- 
ions. When the son became old 
enough to commence his educa- 
tion, he became the instructor for 
Durham. In this way Durham 
learned to read and to read well, 
and spent all his time in reading 
everything his young master 
could procure for him. His in- 
tellect seemed to expand from 
day to day, the mind seemed to al- 
most overtake his great body in 
development. Remember this de- 
velopment of the black man was 
not under the tutelage of a highly 
educated college professor, as 
young princes are usually in- 
structed, but he received all his 
instructions while a slave, at the 
arduous work of clearing a wood- 
ed farm, overseeing other slaves, 



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with a child as his teacher after 
the day's work was over. 

The young government had not 
yet attained the elevating power 
of the public schools for either 
freeman or slave. All the mas- 
ter's children were instructed at 
home by the mother; the number 
had grown to the usual size of the 
family of a frontiersman. 

Early in the year eighteen hun- 
dred and twelve the master called 
Durham to him and said to him, 
"Durham I am called to defend 
my country against the Mother 
Country. Tomorrow at daybreak 
have my best saddle horse ready, 
my gun in order, saddlebags well 
filled. Durham, take care of your 
mistress and the children, to- 
gether with the other slaves. If I 
don't return, see that the children 
are educated properly and God 



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will reward you." The next morn- 
ing the master rode away, leaving 
sorrow behind him in the hearts 
of his loved ones. 

On the departure of the mas- 
ter, Durham pursued his duties 
well and faithfully. When the 
products of the farm were ready 
for market, the slave sold them at 
Lexington, nine miles away. In 
order to get the benefits of the 
early market he would start at 
three in the morning. His young 
master, then a lad of ten years, in 
his fondness for the slave, in- 
sisted on accompanying him on 
these market trips. The boy would 
listen with delight to the negro 
songs as they traveled along the 
roadway at these early hours, the 
melody of the negro's voice fas- 
cinated him. These songs seemed 
to have been gathered by Durham 



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from every place. He never 
seemed to forget a song he heard. 

"Soft o'er the fountain, lingering falls the 

southern moon ; 
Far o'er the mountain breaks the day too 

soon! 
In thy dark eyes' splendor, where the warm 

light loves to dwell, 
Weary looks, yet tender, speak their fond 

farewell. 
Nita, Junita, ask thy soul if we shall part ! 
Nita, Juanita, lean thou on my heart. 

Weeks had passed and no tid- 
ings from the master. On one of 
these market trips Durham 
seemed to have a heavy heart, 
and the young master inquired of 
him "if anything was the mat- 
ter." 

He said, "I am much depressed 
over not hearing from the mas- 
ter; I fear something has be- 
fallen him. I should have gone 



310 

along to care for him. I believe 
in the great principles of this gov- 
ernment that have done so much 
for me. I should be allowed to de- 
fend the right, as well as receive 
its benefits. To be chained as a 
slave, with no opportunity to help 
those who have helped me in my 
hours of need, is all wrong. Every 
man should be a freeman, no mat- 
ter how noble his master, if his 
master is his friend he should 
have the opportunity to defend 
him from his enemy. My young 
master, slavery is wrong. We 
must all of us be allowed to fol- 
low the commands of our Creator 
and not those of man." 

Durham bowed his head and 
was silent for a long time; he 
heard nothing until he heard the 
child's voice, this manly rugged 
boy, said, 



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"Durham, when I get to be a 
man, if it is within my power, you 
will be free." 

The seed was sown in the 
young man's mind, many times 
thereafter it was discussed by the 
two until they were satisfied that 
the question had been settled for 
the right. 

Finally they heard, through the 
return of two hunters and trap- 
pers, the news of a great battle 
that had been fought between the 
Indians and the white men at a 
place afterwards known as the 
Tippecanoe battlefield in which 
the white men were defeated. 
Some weeks after the master's 
brother returned on foot and re- 
ported to the family that his own 
horse had been killed in the fight 
He had escaped in the dark and 
had walked back home, but that 



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he greatly feared that his brother 
had not been so fortunate. After 
weeks of waiting, the master was 
returned by his comrades, suffer- 
ing from a wound in the temple 
from which he never recovered. 

This noble black man was ever 
faithful to his trust. He cared for 
his helpless master, educated the 
children by his labor and when 
his young master was established 
in his profession, he did not even 
feel then that his life work was 
over. The master was laid away, 
Durham still bent t/> his task of 
doing for others, but the young 
master had never for one moment 
forgotten his promise. He knew 
now too well that slavery was 
wrong and he commenced to right 
the wrong. He commenced by 
showing his family the wrongs of 
slavery and that all the slaves 



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should be free. Finally all were 
convinced save one, a new mem- 
ber of the family, just joined by 
marriage, but he insisted he was 
too poor to make the sacrifice. All 
joined with the brother in the 
effort but it was of no avail. He 
finally agreed if one of the slaves 
were sold and he was given one 
thousand dollars he would sign 
the paper for the freedom of all 
the rest. To sell one of the slaves, 
it could not be thought of for a 
moment. It would be like selling 
one of the family. The older 
slaves had been with the family 
for a long time; had helped bear 
their hardships; the younger ones 
had been born on the farm. What 
could be done? The young mas- 
ter, in his perplexity turned to his 
old advisor and companion, Dur- 
ham. He listened with attention 



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to all the young master said. He 
had no sooner finished, when Dur- 
ham said, 

"My master, you must sell me 
to raise the necessary money. 
These young negroes can not be 
sold; they have their whole lives 
before them and I am half 
through mine and have no family 
in this country. I am the proper 
one to make the sacrifice, if one 
is made." 

The young master stood like 
one turned to stone from a blow. 
After a long time he said, "I can 
not do it." 

Then said Durham, "Today 
there was a man in Versailles 
looking for help and was willing 
to hire on a long time contract. 
Likely you can arrange with him 
to raise the money?" Through the 
strong force of Durham, a con- 



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tract was made with the man 
from Tennessee to pay fifteen 
hundred dollars for three years' 
labor, one thousand cash and five 
hundred dollars to be paid to Dur- 
ham at the end of the term. 
Under this arrangement the pa- 
pers for the freedom of all were 
executed. 

Just before the expiration of 
the three years, the young master 
left to see that the contract was 
fulfilled. It being at a time long 
before railway, he was delayed on 
his journey. As he hurried to 
overcome the loss of time made 
by the delay, he came upon a body 
lying beside the roadway. He dis- 
mounted from his horse, and re- 
ceived the shock of his life; it was 
Durham, his long and faithful 
friend, left for dead. On exam- 
ination he found that there 



£16 

was still life. He administered 
restoratives and Durham spoke 
to him. He said, "My young mas- 
ter, I knew you would come to me. 
I have been robbed of my five 
hundred dollars and left for dead. 
No matter about the money. I 
have been well paid for this life. 
I know that my Redeemer liveth, 
which I never could have known, 
except for this experience. If I 
could only have informed my peo- 
ple. Notwithstanding this, all is 
well." He passed into the Great 
Beyond and was buried by the 
young master. Can any one 
doubt that this noble black man 
was under the guidance of the 
great Creator of all? 

BE STRONG. 
<r We are not here to play, to dream, to drift. 
We have hard work to do, and loads to lift. 
Shun not the struggle, face it. Tis God's 
gift. 



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Be strong! 
Say not the days are evil — who's to blame? 
And fold the hands and acquiesce — shame ! 
Stand up, speak out, and bravely, in God's 
name. 

Be strong! 
It matters not how deep intrenched the 

wrong, 
How hard the battle goes ; the day how long. 
Faint not, fight on! Tomorrow comes the 

song." 

The slow process of develop- 
ment of mankind is caused by the 
tendency of the savage to cling to 
the animal side of life. When the 
savage is introduced into civiliza- 
tion he is more strongly attracted 
to the uncivilized part of society, 
that part nearer his accustomed 
condition, under which rule, if 
persisted in, will produce sure 
failure. He is compelled under 
the law of nature to persist in 



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climbing up the rungs of life or 
be exterminated as so many abor- 
iginal races have been heretofore. 
For instance, in the recent case of 
the North American Indians. So 
many of them refused to take on 
the higher civilization, and very 
largely for this reason the race 
has been absolved. 

"With malice toward none, with charity 
for all, with firmness in the right, as God 
gives us to see the right. 

Let us have faith that right makes might, 
and in that faith let us do our duty as we 
understand it." 

— Abraham Lincoln. 



CHAPTER X. 



THE DAWN SCENES BEFORE THE 
AWAKENING. 



CROSSING THE BAR. 
"Sunset and evening star 

And one clear call for me 
And may there be no moaning of the bar, 

When I put out to sea. 

But such a tide as moving seems asleep, 

Too full for sound and foam, 
When that which drew from out the bound- 
less deep 

Turns again home. 

Twilight and evening bell, 

And after that the dark ! 
And may there be no sadness of farewell 

When I embark. 

For tho' from out our bourne of Time and 

Place 
The flood may bear me far, 
I hope to see my Pilot face to face, 
When I have crost the bar." 



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The pilgrims proceeded upon 
their journey until they could see 
from their position, up an eleva- 
tion far above them a black wall, 
blacker than jet itself, overshad- 
owing their pathway. The ob- 
struction seemed to be endless in 
length and impenetrable by man 
or beast. They looked and could 
see others approaching the bar- 
rier from all points as far as the 
eye could see. Their experience 
for the remainder of the journey 
is given by the younger man. 
What we saw was a concourse of 
humanity moving onward toward 
this great wall, like a great 
avalanche violating the laws of 
gravity, passing on within the 
barrier. They were composed of 
both young and old. We see upon 
them the marks of disease result- 
ing from the ravage of the en- 



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emy, known as fatal to the human 
race. They were so marked from 
the disease we could quickly rec- 
ognize the cause of the changed 
condition. We also saw many 
marked by wounds which must 
come from the violence of man, 
demonstrating the low mental in- 
stinct within man, and showing 
that the grinding of time upon 
his carnivorous teeth has been too 
short to grind away the savage 
state of man and elevate him into 
the highly civilized state. Many 
of the numberless pilgrims 
seemed to be composed of single 
travelers while occasionally they 
would flock as from a battle field. 
We tarried not, but traveled in 
the same direction with the flood 
of humanity up the elevation. 
Our approach brought us in front 
of the great barrier which we dis- 



222 



covered to be the darkest forest 
ever encountered by man. We 
needed no warning of the danger 
or the result of the encounter. 
Man at the moment realizes that 
the task before him is the great- 
est battle of his life. A longing to 
avoid the task possesses his very 
soul, not of fear, but awe. The 
magnitude of the undertaking. 
How can one accomplish the task 
and not be torn asunder, scatter- 
ing the vital forces of man in the 
winds of eternal destruction, the 
far away, the unknown? We 
looked upon the great trees and 
the tangle beneath at their feet. 
Our eyes were unable to pene- 
trate the blackness. Our sight 
was as one blind, no spark or ray 
of light nor shadow, the barrier 
extended upward beyond our vis- 
ion with depths unknown. I 



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looked upon my father's face. It 
cast a glow as of the bravest of 
the brave, of noble bearing. He 
moved on into the blackness and 
I followed. The struggle was as 
for our very lives. No night in 
my life had ever cast such black- 
ness. We were entirely blind and 
sightless. My anxiety on account 
of my father's weakness in his 
life so well spent, seated in me a 
desire to take the burden of the 
fight. I passed him by groping 
my way and commenced the 
struggle with the undergrowth. 
It rent and tore me as if every 
fibre would be torn away piece by 
piece. The struggle continued 
until every intelligent cell within 
me seemed to lose its vital force. 
My father laid his hand upon my 
shoulder as if to give me strength. 
The effect was magic, and I 



9?4 

pushed on and on until I fell from 
sheer exhaustion. In time I had 
the feeling that I was in the light 
but totally blind and helpless. 

How long I remained in this 
condition I am unable to tell. I 
could not remember how I came 
or whither I was going. I had an 
indistinct recollection that my 
father came with me, but what 
had become of him I could not re- 
call. I felt that he was not lost in 
our wanderings but I was too ex- 
hausted and helpless to search for 
him. I felt like one lying on the 
surface of the sea, although there 
was no water. I could feel the ebb 
and flow of the tide. There was 
no moisture about me, still I was 
going on swaying, swaying, up 
and down. I finally concluded 
that it was the disturbed condi- 
tion of the brain, likely fever, al- 



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though my mind never in my life 
seemed so clear, and I soon de- 
cided that I was alive and in per- 
fect condition except for weak- 
ness and loss of sight. 

My reason told me to wait, time 
might overcome these defects. I 
could do nothing better than wait 
and see if, through nature, or per- 
haps through some unknown 
force, I might be restored to my 
fully balanced powers. 

As I lay in my prostrate condi- 
tion, a sound came to me as that 
of a silver bell, so clear, so pure, 
so sweet. Again and again it 
sounded. I finally realized that it 
was not a bell, but it was the 
sound of the human voice, clear, 
pure and sweet. It far excelled 
any voice I had ever heard in my 
life, in its purity and culture. It 
must be the result of years in long 



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training. The voice came nearer 
and nearer until it stood by me. 
It was the voice of a female, one 
of extreme culture, beautifully 
attuned. The voice of my mother 
was something like it but not the 
same. I have heard other very 
pleasing voices but this was dif- 
ferent. It must be the voice of an 
angel. Peace on earth, seemed to 
fill the air in her presence. 

She said, "My brother, all is 
well, fear not. The time is near 
at hand when thy eyes will be 
opened and the result of the work 
done by thy hand will be shown. 
In this test they will be measured 
by the scales of true justice, every 
one will receive the just reward 
for all the talents he has com- 
pleted." 

Then I asked, "Where am I and 
what has happened to me that I 
am in this destitute condition?" 



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"You have just passed through 
the great black belt that some call 
'death/ but there is no death, life 
is eternal. What God has given 
lives forever. You are now far 
from the great struggle through 
which you have just passed. You 
will soon be restored to your nor- 
mal condition." 

"My good angel, may I ask who 
my benefactress is and how I may 
know you after I recover my 
sight, if we meet again?" 

"My name is Veruna. I have 
been in the work of assisting 
others for over three hundred 
years, as mankind counts time. 
Each day I leave my dwelling- 
place which is in a much higher 
zone than this, and devote all my 
power to assist those that need 
more light and help to better their 
condition. From my long experi- 



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ence in this work I am enabled to 
help others accomplish many 
things they must do before they 
can elevate themselves into the 
higher zone of life, which all hope 
to attain. We are all controlled 
by divine or fixed laws and must 
obey before we can progress. Life 
is eternal, never ending, and it 
must go on in some form. In the 
uplifting, we must do unto others 
as we would have others do unto 
us. We ask not of others what 
we would not grant. All human- 
ity is equal before the divine law, 
if thrown away it is your loss. No 
preference is shown under the 
gauge on account of birth, earth- 
ly possessions count not to ad- 
vantage, one over the less for- 
tunate, in the scales or test of the 
law, they are true to the divine. 
The true test is the intellectual or 



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developed talent received from 
the Creator, no difference how 
small. We must start its growth, 
using every opportunity for its 
development, that one may have 
the knowledge and be able to 
judge the law and apply it as lib- 
erally upon others as we do upon 
ourselves. 

You are upon the scales con- 
trolled by nature's laws. The 
waiving sensation you feel, as of 
one being lifted in the air, is the 
true vibration. You have just 
passed out from under the influ- 
ence of the law of the center of 
gravity, which controlled you at 
one time and had its uses. The 
law that takes its place you will 
find has been wisely planned. The 
test is at hand, fear not, you will 
soon see that justice has been 
given you. 



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Veruna stooped and placed her 
fingers upon my eyelids and I 
could feel a tingling sensation vi- 
brate through me. She then said 
to me, "I have been with you a 
long time, in fact, since you were 
a baby. I was with you when your 
parents thought you would die, 
You were a very little child. Then 
again when you were a grown 
man you had a long sickness, I 
was also with you. You may call 
me any time now when you need 
me and I will come." 

She moved away a short dis- 
tance and I heard her speak and 
my father answer. I heard other 
voices, both male and female. I 
could not hear all that was said 
but I realized that some one was 
being assisted. I now realized 
that my sight was returning for 
I could see as through a mist. 



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The atmosphere near me was 
quite clear so that I could see a 
group of people, ma le and female, 
and many children. I could see 
my father standing- in their midst 
dressed in a robe not unlike the 
dalmatica robe. 

The whole group looked so pure 
and white, as they turned and 
came to me. I had never seen 
such happy, kind and loving 
faces. The children were singing 
a beautiful song, so sweet that it 
warmed my very being. As they 
approached me, I could feel the 
magnetic influence thrown out, 
assisting me, like a great dynamo 
sending the current along the 
wires. I felt life as I never had 
before. I was so strong that I 
stood upon my feet. 

As they approached, Veruna 
said, "You are now pilgrims on 



23a 

the Testing Plains of Justice. The 
plain is very extensive and is bor- 
dered on one side by the forest 
through which you have passed 
which is now far from you. These 
banks of clouds are the shadows 
from the misdeeds or wrongs 
committed by mankind. We all 
hope to see the day when this 
plain may be free from this mist, 
and shine forth from the good 
deeds of mankind, as bright as 
the faces of these little children. 

"It is not our purpose to teach 
you your lessons. Experience 
must be your instructor. You will 
find many wise provisions for 
your convenience, learn them as 
soon hereafter as you have the 
opportunity, they will assist you 
on your journey. May your am- 
bition elevate you soon into a 
much higher zone of life. We will 



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now leave you to pursue your 
journey. Remember, 'Ask and ye 
shall receive/ " 

These dear new friends faded 
away out of our vision into the 
unknown world, a world new and 
unknown to us both. We stood, 
as we supposed, on the plain alone, 
and from the little knowledge in 
our possession of the laws under 
which we are controlled, through 
the wise provision of the Creator, 
we knew we must rely upon our 
minds. 

My father said, "My son, I am 
very anxious to gain a full knowl- 
edge of these wise provisions 
made by the Creator of the uni- 
verse for the government of all 
mankind. To stand in this place 
will accomplish very little. We 
must use all the power within us 
to seek wisdom. Let us proceed 



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upon our way to the higher sphere 
spoken of by our benefactors. 
They have experience unknown 
to us." 

I followed him and soon real- 
ized that we were ascending the 
plain by easy stages. We came 
upon many people and some 
seemed to pass us, traveling 
faster than we were, as my father 
was walking very leisurely, look- 
ing for knowledge. 

We came upon a man on the 
plain. I remember him especially. 
He was thin and sallow, eyes set 
close together, wearing gold coin 
spectacles; the coin fully con- 
trolled the vision. His hands were 
full of chattel mortgages which 
he hugged to his breast. We 
could not see his eyes for the 
coin spectacles, which reflected 
throughout his body. He grum- 



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bled and was much dissatisfied. 
He complained to us over the non- 
payment of his mortgages. As 
he stood in a black mist we passed 
on. 

The next object that fixed our 
attention, as we passed a clear 
spot, gloriously lighted, was one 
of those noble women like we had 
seen before, leading a beautiful 
little child. We followed them for 
sometime. The glorious light was 
always with them; seemed to be a 
protection to them. Finally they 
were lost to our view. 

We next came upon another 
man, loaded down with a coin bag. 
The burden bent him over in a 
stooping position as he walked. 
He was traveling in the opposite 
direction from the one we trav- 
eled. He also wore coin spec- 
tacles upon a hook nose, which ob- 



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structed a clear vision of nature. 
We could see him tottering away 
in a black mist. He stumbled like 
one almost blind and did not seem 
to observe us. He trod on with 
his burden, his mind absorbed 
with the one object, nothing else, 
but greed for the yellow metal, 
gold, gold, how many we have 
met before, not always to hoard 
but frequently to use in debauch- 
ery. 

The next persons we saw were 
a mother and two children with 
her arms about them, love radiant 
from all their bright and happy 
eyes, no obstruction of the radius 
about them, love and refinement 
marked their faces. They climbed 
the elevation rapidly, evidently 
following the instructions of 
some wise guardian angel. 

As we ascended, we heard off to 



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our left, a great commotion; we 
looked in the direction, through 
the blackness and could see with 
great difficulty a number of per- 
sons clothed in pure white, talk- 
ing to one whom we could see 
evidently must class himself as a 
great war Lord. From his bear- 
ing we knew he must hold this 
opinion with a death-like grip. He 
was out of tune with all mankind. 
The men and women in white 
were making a determined effort 
to convince him he was only a 
man and not a lord over men and 
must act as men even unto obedi- 
ence. They told him he was di- 
vested of all the authority he for- 
merly held over his fellowmen 
and must now submit as a little 
child. Just then a squad of sol- 
diers passed near us on their as- 
cent and he commenced his ges- 



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ticulation anew, commanding the 
soldiers and crying out with rage, 
demanding that they halt and 
obey him, but they passed on their 
way without a word or halting. 
His face was one of terror. My 
father asked one in white passing 
near us how long he had been in 
this place and in that condition. 

She said in answer "It may 
have been for a day or a thousand 
years, as no reckoning of time is 
made in this field. You are now 
out from under the shadow of the 
earth by which you have been ac- 
customed to count time. This sub- 
ject must learn and obey the law 
or stay where he is confined in the 
darkness." 

I could see his face well again 
and by a close study it seemed to 
me I could see through the long 
line of ancestry running back 



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into the stone age. It may not 
have run back so far although his 
face looked it, likely into the iron 
age would cover his line of pro- 
genitors or his lineage may have 
run back to the "fire tender" in 
the early civilization when the 
housewife must be provided with 
fire when it burned out during her 
absence at her labor in the field, 
thus ingrafting himself in the 
good graces of the people until 
they rewarded him by making 
him their ruler. From this pure 
blood sprouted the great ances- 
tral tree which produced this 
great monarch. I looked again. 
I must have misjudged in part the 
line, for I saw some of the marks 
of the hunter coming out of the 
mountains into the fertile valley 
of the Euphrates and feeding 
upon the rich fruits of the tropics 



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and from these idle hours, when it 
became necessary for him to labor 
in sustaining life he built this 
wonderful tree for the production 
of rulers of men that others 
might labor for him, or he might 
have come through a line of an- 
cestors which were driven into the 
north and overlooked by Caesar 
in his wars or perhaps left by the 
Yellow Race at the time of their 
conquest. It matters not from 
whence they came, they must 
obey the divine law, all mankind 
alike; there is no escape, just one 
way. The gloom overshadowed 
his countenance and I could see 
no more. You have seen the like 
in every walk of life. 

I quietly followed my father up 
the ascent. We saw many more 
pilgrims and many good super- 
visors in white robes, in fact we 



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saw so many pilgrims it is impos- 
sible to mention them all. After 
a time we realized that a change 
,was taking place in the conditions 
about us. We could feel that we 
were passing into a higher zone 
or cycle of intelligence, an uplift- 
ing, the absence of sin. We 
pushed on with all the force we 
could command. The atmosphere 
cleared; the mist stood in banks 
at our backs, the pure, clear and 
sweet air brushed gently past our 
faces. We breathed a new life, 
full of energy and promise of ac- 
complishment of the purpose in 
our lives. We had the knowledge 
of gaining our atonement, it 
mattered not now, whether it was 
of sin or our mistakes, we were 
at last out into the bright light, 
the beautiful golden glow was all 
about us, more radiant than the 



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sunshine, although we saw no 
source from whence the light 
came. We could see no sun and 
if it was from the sun it must be 
obstructed by the elevation of the 
great plain before us. 

We traveled on and on; every 
one we saw seemed to be travel- 
ing in the same general direction. 
We finally met one in white, of 
whom we asked for information 
as to where we were. He told us 
to face about and look back at the 
great cloud bank in the sky over 
the plains we had just left. As we 
turned I observed overhead that 
the sky was one great brilliant 
mass, more brilliant than any 
rainbow I had ever seen and far 
more extensive. The brilliant rib- 
bons of color commenced at the 
horizon at our front and passed 
over the heavens and blending 



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into one great mixture of colors 
shot against and pierced the cloud 
banks from under which we had 
just passed. These colors seemed 
so vivid and rich that they im- 
pressed one that they might be 
reflected from some great hidden 
gems; the color effect was much 
like those reflected by and seen in 
the Turquoise, the Topaz, the 
Opal, the Sapphire, the Moon- 
stone, the Ruby, the Sardonyx 
and the Onyx; all of these colors 
are to be seen upon the sky; or 
the colors may have been reflect- 
ed from a bed of gigantic size and 
fragrance of beautiful colors 
taken from the air by nature. 
They may consist of such rich and 
rare blossoms in plant life with 
many kinds and colors as seen in 
the Snowdrop, the Primrose, the 
Cosmos, the Galgardia, the Cor- 



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iapsis, the Violet, the Daisy, the 
Chrysanthemum, the Hawthorn, 
the Honeysuckle, the Lily, the 
Poppy, the Morning Glory, the 
Rose, the Holly, the Magnolia, the 
Orchids and the Lotus. One could 
easily believe all things possible 
in such elements either mineral 
or vegetable life. We watched 
these great bursts of colors thrust 
across the sky, like a contest be- 
tween myriads of varying colored 
searchlights. They dash to mid- 
air and force these many colors 
into one mass spilling out in 
blended rays at the apex and 
again bounding as a unit into the 
black banks hanging over the 
Testing Plains, just passed by us 
in our journey. Although a bril- 
liant light many times more bril- 
liant than the sun shone over- 
head, it reflected a soft light on 



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the plain upon which we stood. 
The man in white said, "You are 
now standing on the Plain of Ob- 
servation, the adjacent plain to 
the Testing Plain. 

I looked and could see as indi- 
cated by him, indelible letters il- 
luminated on the black banks by 
the intense light of the blended 
rays in the sky above. He spoke 
again, and said, "These are the 
world's permanent records of the 
acts of mankind, read them if you 
like or pass upon your way as 
it seems your pleasure." He then 
left us to work out our own des- 
tiny in the way of knowledge we 
might gather from the great 
scenes now before us in the illu- 
minated records. The scene was 
stupendous; the records were so 
plain and distinct that you could 
not mistake the separate acts of 



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the individual, his weakness, his 
strength, his wrongs, his good 
acts, his love, his hate, his sym- 
pathy, his neglect, his philan- 
thropic deeds, his degradation, 
his purity of mind, his murderous 
acts, his fidelity, the discharge of 
his duties according to his mental 
attainment, the force given him 
at the beginning and the total of 
man's own made account. As I 
looked I was astonished and filled 
with wonder. No one escaped 
these self-made Aerial Records. 
The laws of the eternal violations 
burnt in the heavens, like a fringe 
of fire, possessed of force, light, 
grace and beauty. The observa- 
tions at the time were made by 
thousands, the plain within the 
radius of my eyes were covered 
with mankind. The evidence was 
conclusive that man held the 



power to a very large extent, over 
his own destiny, his own culture 
produced the fruits for his har- 
vest. 

"Go ye also into the vineyard 
and whatsoever is right, that 
shall ye receive." 

The question was fully settled 
in my mind; no further answer 
was necessary. You can not hire 
any one else to do your work. 
What he may do for you will show 
in his record and not in yours, the 
acts done by you will be under 
your name. 

My father turned and resumed 
the journey and I followed him. 
As he led the way I observed he 
was erect and walked like a young 
man, his staff he carried under 
his arm; he breathed a new life. 
The observers of the phenomenon 
passed out of sight as we jour- 



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neyed on our way; the plain still 
retained the golden glow, the air 
increased in purity. After a time 
we realized some kind of a change 
was rapidly taking place, a dif- 
ferent feeling came over us. In 
this air we would soon be carried 
into another cycle of nature. We 
pushed on with good cheer and 
great energy until we became sat- 
isfied the change was upon us. 
We looked long over the plain and 
as far as the eye could see the 
ascent was very slight. We trav- 
eled on upon the seemingly end- 
less plain. It was different from 
all others we had traveled hereto- 
fore. No landmarks, no guide 
post, not even a shadow, nothing 
except the sweet and pure zephyr 
always blowing from the direc- 
tion that the brilliant lights came 
as from the same land. This must 



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be the dwelling place of God or 
His administering angels selected 
to send the truth to all mankind, 
so that all alike may have the op- 
portunity to know and to follow 
the divine laws, or it may be the 
beautiful grounds about His tem- 
ple of justice, a place for the final 
rest outside the gates, where one 
may have time to collect himself 
or remove the outer garments, to 
go over again the lessons of life 
and try to round out this life of 
battle, the weak spots, the lessons 
neglected in our idle hours. This 
feeling was upon me, that I might 
have, through some neglect, over- 
looked something that would 
make me unfit for the position I 
now occupied in this realm of per- 
fection. 

After a long time of travel 
upon this plain we came to a large 



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gathering of soldiers of all coun- 
tries mingled together in one 
mass, listening to an address by a 
man who had a remarkably 
strong face, the bearing of one 
with long experience, a scholar, 
love and tenderness in his face. 
His address was on the cruelty of 
war and its murderous results, 
the injury to mankind. 
Other things, in part, he said: 

Tarry thou ye pilgrims returned, 

For a moment's instruction and friendly ad- 
vice. 

To help thee appreciate the value 

Of the knowledge gained through this ad- 
vance. 

Remember, thou, at the beginning, 

You left paradise lowly and unlearned, 

The Great Ruler of the universe 

Gave thee at the parting his assurance of 
your safe return. 

And strictly commanded thee, 

That thou shall not destroy mankind, 

Nor cultivate the beast within thy frame, 



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Neither the disposition of the snapping cur 

unkind. 
The untamed tiger, the cunning serpent, 
Are no part of mental man's organism. 
The Deity made no such uncanny gift, 
If thou ever possessed them they must have 

been reflected from some unhallowed 

prism. 

The purest gift of the Deity, 
Upon his fallen image was bestowed, 
His guarantee to all that humble 
Lowly man, of every kind in time will be re- 
stored. 
This spawn of the Creator 
Needs time and honest nature's culture 
To produce the mankind like unto his Creator, 
The return demand of paradise for his future. 
Is not the bestowal love, 
Memory and all the power dianoetic. 
This spark of the divine given to all, 
Comes alone from influence dialytic. 
Remember thou man after Adam and Eve, 
Although this gift is small it is a perfect 

germ. 
Your honest culture is a necessity to 
Germinate this divine bulb into a mental gem. 
You know the result of this just test, 



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Good or bad has been the culture of this 
divine seed. 

I pray you labored industriously, 

Your mental force with all might and speed. 

You gave the best your condition could pro- 
duce, 

Of this might out of your mental soil. 

On substitution I hope you did not rely, 

If by others the work done you have foil. 

Power expended in the chase of 

Mental things with a golden lining, 

Are as dross in paradise, 

Long ages have established the result of this 
finding. 

Poor and humble was the 

Experience of the noble Nazarene. 

This may have been your lot, 

Force development was a blessing in disguise 
before unseen. 

When the earth grew cold 

Enough to form an outer crust, 

The Lord of Hosts placed quadrupeds 

On the sphere to walk in the new made dust. 

These animals had big broad feet, 

So they would not break through. 

In the crevices some did fall, 

Sealed for ages in the earth's maw. 

Reptile and insect life, 



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Quickly followed in their wake. 

This kind of life did industriously work, 

To place the leaven in the earthly cake. 

Their lives were short season or for a day, 

Thus served their purpose well, 

Of the Creator in their stay. 

The Lord conceived the plan, 

He placed upon the earth a thing eternal. 

Then followed man, God's fallen image, 

With the opportunity of discarding all that 
is infernal. 

As man stood in the arena, 

A savage clothed in animal garb. 

He looked for friends of his kind, no assur- 
ance, 

He could see, nothing but his biceps as his 
guard. 

Stripped to muscles as he stood, 

No other protection, save a skiny casing 
around him spread. 

So compelled by divine command, 

To labor with hands and mind to cover his 
head and earn his bread. 

The Lord of Hosts partially relented, 

On seeing man's lonely state. 

He selected from out the mental world a fe- 
male as near his condition for his 
mate. 



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She was prepared with added care, 

Silken adipose-tissue as bedding for the ex- 
ternal membrane. 

Other things unexplained by the Deity, why 
she was given, 

Added cells for use more than man when he 
to earth came. 

Broad of foot and thick of head, 

Hast thou become earth bound ; 

Through thy worship of material things, 

Bounded thee as a worshiper of the ground. 

Oh ! happy returning pilgrims, 

Hast thou brought rich cultures as the re- 
demption price. 

March on then with heroic tread, 

This reward will admit thee into paradise. 

We listened a long time, until 
my father became anxious to pur- 
sue his journey. 

We next encountered a very 
large school of children. The 
first school I had ever seen con- 
ducted in the open, out upon the 
plain. From what we heard, the 
instructors were masters of the 



2fi5 



art. Nothing was left undone to 
develop the children and by the 
shortest method, nature itself, 
that great law. We learned from 
the instructions in the lessons we 
heard given, that we were on the 
Plain of Development; that the 
opportunity was given us on this 
plain that we might supply men- 
tal defects and round out our 
learning of work, neglected in 
our lives, through the effort now 
in these schools at work on this 
plain. We saw and visited many 
places of learning. The instruc- 
tors were the finest I ever had the 
pleasure of hearing and far in ad- 
vance of my instructions and 
work, all were masters of their 
subjects, all of high mental at- 
tainment and evidently long in 
this work. We heard lectures on 
man, civilized and savage, beast, 



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birds of prey, reptiles, memory, 
common sense, education, science 
and culture. I learned from these 
lessons that the greatest task be- 
fore mankind is the mastery of 
himself. When he learns self 
mastery, he will master every 
task thereafter which he under- 
takes, provided always that his 
undertakings are right. If wrong, 
it is self evident that he has not 
mastered himself and he will fail 
in his undertaking. Desire is not 
mastery of oneself. Ambition at 
the expense of others is not mas- 
tery. You may succeed for a time 
but you will fail in the end. You 
must master yourself for perma- 
nent attainment. There are so 
many cross-roads in life that one 
can easily fail, although the 
straight road is always open to us. 
Master yourself by following it. 



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We carry a little guide with us 
which points to the way. Obey it 
and you will be guided right. It 
will never fail you until you be- 
smear it with mud then it be- 
comes illegible, and you are lost 
on your way. What do you do 
then? Either you go pleasure 
mad or place coin spectacles 
over your eyes, then you could not 
see the way if it were a mile wide. 
Pleasure mad is a more common 
disease than gold coin spectacles, 
although either are bad to over- 
come. It takes a long time to re- 
cover and get back into the right 
way. Either leaves a stiff neck 
and when once fastened on to you, 
they do not care if they can not 
stay with you, but a few days in a 
short life, that in the endless time 
to come you are compelled to get 
rid of them no matter how they 
must go. 



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I also learned from these les- 
sons that through the law of self 
mastery, we find the very essence 
of the law of attraction, which is 
the adhesive quality of all civili- 
zation. Society is sealed together 
by the law of attraction and firm- 
ly held so long as it exists, but 
when selfish hate overshadows 
self mastery, the law of attraction 
dissolves and the savage becomes 
the master. Perfect society can 
come only from perfect self mas- 
tery or the higher development of 
the life cells. After we have mas- 
tered ourselves it is easy to learn 
the application of all things in 
nature for our own use. All things 
are at hand when we look for it 
and need the instrument. We see 
many a man that has thrown his 
tools away and does not realize 
his loss. He lays it to something 



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else when it is his own fault and 
no one's else. 

We visited these institutions of 
learning until the time came for 
us to continue our journey. On 
our way again, after this period 
of instruction, we revolved over 
in our minds the application of 
these lessons; how they could be 
of use to mankind. As we trav- 
eled on I observed that my father 
walked like a man young in 
years. The full vigor of life was 
upon him again, the devastation 
wrought by time had fled and I 
believed had gone forever. The 
air upon the plain was pure and 
invigorating; all life within me 
was in a perfect state, sight, hear- 
ing and respiration. We moved 
rapidly over the plain as if guided 
by an unseen hand or through the 
wisdom of nature's gift to us. Our 



260 

sight soon became so illuminated 
that we could see far in the dis- 
tance an object of gigantic size 
having all the appearance of a 
crystal mountain range of great 
height across our way and re- 
flected like a beacon light. Its 
brilliancy far excelled any light 
we had heretofore seen. Our les- 
sons of self mastery served us 
well for we marched on until we 
could examine the structure be- 
fore us, a great wall or building 
of gigantic size, and great height, 
the walls were interfulgent, very 
clear, shining from within, exhib- 
iting living records portraying 
the successful lives lived by man- 
kind, just as they occurred at the 
time of the act of these celestial 
deeds. We walked along for a 
long distance, far enough away to 
see and view these wonderful 



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illuminated everlasting records 
of eternal accomplishments upon 
which mankind is lifted from his 
low and fallen estate back into a 
proper mental condition befitting 
him for a habitation in the Eter- 
nal Kingdom. 

All these acts, in which a re- 
ward of merit is attained in a 
permanent record by which the 
world is illuminated and guided, 
are all the resultant acts of love 
or some deed of noble intent with 
the divine fidelity never failing 
essence within our very soul, 
which creates the desire to help 
our f ellowman. As I looked I was 
impressed with how thorough the 
details of the views were, as no 
act was too small to pass unre- 
corded if it was part of the noble 
act itself. The illumination of 
these pure acts alone and sep- 



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arate from misdeeds gives a per- 
fect impression on your mind free 
from confusion and you judge the 
act alone and the result of the 
conclusion is a lesson of the very 
highest order. As I reflected the 
full comprehension of the lesson 
of these views and the ones we 
had seen before on the cloud 
banks came to my mind and I 
knew that they were the actual 
experiences of men. These views 
before us gives the reward re- 
ceived from noble deeds, the at- 
tending effect to lift mankind 
from the fallen estate he finds 
himself in back into a higher life 
free from contamination. The 
other records show both good and 
bad deeds and leave us to strug- 
gle with our own accounts and 
improve them through and under 
the divine laws as we understand 
them. 



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Both of these wonderful rec- 
ords as seen by us on our journey 
greatly impressed me. I could 
gather in my mind the full force 
of the first records and the lessons 
they taught of the wisdom of al- 
lowing us to work out our own 
destiny and without price. By 
price I mean that a man is not 
compelled to give his labor to an- 
other man to purchase his own 
salvation. The reward is attained 
by his own labor and not by the in- 
tellect of others. But as to these 
views before us my mind is some- 
what confused. I can see why the 
walls are interfulgent. That is 
for two reasons: 1st — so that the 
light of heaven is not obstructed 
in its full radiant power, direct- 
ing the work of all mankind to its 
fullest development. 2d — that 
these noble deeds are an example 



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to all and live in the soul of man 
forever. The intellectual trans- 
missions of these lessons here 
seen are likely made through the 
mother before his birth by a con- 
tinuous intellectual current from 
the noble performer to and 
through this agency into the com- 
ing generations. 

As I reasoned with myself, I 
realized how mighty were these 
divine illuminations thrown out 
as a life buoy to mankind, their 
reflection is thrown out for all 
and all receive it, except the men- 
tal blind. As I stood and reflected 
the great words of Jesus Christ 
came to my mind, "For the Son of 
man is come to seek and to save 
that which is lost." How did these 
great illuminated words come 
down to me if not under the above 
rules, they were uttered almost 



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two thousands years ago. They 
are just as vivid in the mind of 
mankind today as the day they 
were spoken. They were divine 
lessons, these many lessons of 
Jesus, and are thrown into the 
life of mankind with great force 
and radiance. Under great op- 
position they have lived and will 
live on forever, never being lost 
sight of, except in the bloody field 
of battle where man's intellect is 
cauterized and he believes God 
has his dwelling place within him- 
self, he is blind to any illumina- 
tion; though an intellectual cur- 
rent moves over the mental wires 
of the universe that can be gath- 
ered by an effort, he sees it not, 
he has lost his mental control. 
Thus man may not receive these 
great illuminated messages. He 
must be attuned in his own men- 



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tal instrument to receive the 
beautiful glow of these messages. 
No savage man possesses the 
power to gather the full effect 
of divine messages. It flashed 
through my mind "When the 
wicked are multiplied, transgres- 
sion increaseth; but the righteous 
shall see their fall." 

Again my mind turned to the 
illuminated words of Jesus, "For 
the kingdom of heaven is as a 
man traveling into a far country, 
who called his own servants and 
delivered unto them his goods. 
And unto one he gave five talents, 
to another two, and to another 
one; to every man according to 
his several ability, and straight- 
way took his journey. Then he 
that had received the five talents 
went and traded with the same, 
and made them other five talents. 



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And likewise he that had received 
two he also gained other two. But 
he that had received one went and 
digged in the earth, and hid his 
Lord's money. After a long time 
the lord of those servants come- 
eth and reckoneth with them. 
And so he that had received five 
talents came and brought other 
five talents, saying, Lord thou de- 
liveredst unto me five talents; be- 
hold, I have gained beside them 
five talents more. His Lord said 
unto him, "Well done, thou good 
and faithful servant; thou hast 
been faithful over a few things, I 
will make thee ruler over many 
things; enter thou into the joy of 
thy Lord." He also that had re- 
ceived two talents came and 
said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto 
me two talents; behold I have 
gained two other talents beside 



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them. His Lord said unto him, 
"Well done, good and faithful 
gervant; thou hast been faithful 
over a few things, I will make 
thee ruler over many things; en- 
ter thou into the joy of thy Lord." 

As I looked upon these views 
the lesson was very plain to me 
and I understood the divine wis- 
dom that man could not get too 
far away to receive the benefit of 
these illuminated lessons as the 
divine power is always cast upon 
us, "but ye are not in the flesh, but 
in the Spirit, if so be that the 
Spirit of God dwell in you. Now, 
if any man have not the Spirit of 
Christ, he is none of his." 

My father turned to me and 
said: Jesus has said to us, "With 
men this is impossible, but with 
God all things are possible." We 
could see that the effect of noble 



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deeds was the clearing of the 
brain cells, to clear the brain cells 
we must perform the act our- 
selves and the effect in the clear- 
ing of our minds. 

For example, I will take one of 
the views before us. 

That of a mother working over 
her sick child, everything was so 
clear, she was surrounded by pov- 
erty but cleanliness of heaven 
was seen everywhere. Her very 
determined effort, the effort that 
could only be made by a mother, 
saved her child in spite of over- 
whelming difficulties. The effect 
on her mind was a radiant illumi- 
nation and cleansing of the cells. 
The other cells of her body were 
in perfect order. Doubtless this 
clearing must have attained their 
perfection at some previous time 
in her development, for the dis- 



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tressed conditions under which 
she worked did not seem to affect 
or destroy the lower cells of her 
body. They were in good condi- 
tion even after she had attained 
success. We could see the blood 
rushing through the brain cells 
with the effort she made and as it 
receded, we could see the clearing 
effect, as if washed by some magic 
hand. 

Another view we saw. I call 
them views for the reason, not 
knowing just how they were pro- 
duced or how close the subject 
was from the barrier; it might 
have been very near or a long 
way from the obstruction. The 
light was so intense that I could 
see every part of the object to its 
most minute detail, just as dis- 
tinct as if every part had been 
divided and held up to me for in- 



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spection, such brilliant and re- 
fined rays were passing through 
the object that it developed the 
details far in excess of the perfec- 
tion attained by the X-ray. 

This view was of a strong man 
of splendid bearing, with a slave 
girl crouched at his feet. When 
we first saw him he seemed to be 
holding some one at bay, then he 
stooped and cut the slave collar 
from her neck and stamped it un- 
der his feet. The brilliancy of his 
eyes would stop, almost incin- 
erate, the most hardy slave hunt- 
er; his brain glowed with perfect 
development and triumph for the 
right. 

Another view and the last I will 
mention, was that of a perfect 
man. No one could mistake his 
perfection that saw him. To see 
was to believe, for his face would 



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convince the most skeptic he was 
giving to the people of the earth 
the Holy Bible. The gift was the 
greatest view of all we had seen, 
although we could see very high 
upon the wall by the refulgent 
splendor all were very clear. We 
could not mistake the lesson. 

We concluded, after a careful 
examination, that from the purity 
of the air on the other side of the 
wall, in this zone beyond the bar- 
rier, the air had been purified by 
some unknown process to us 
whereby the poisonous gases and 
solids were extracted leaving the 
air absolutely free from obstruc- 
tion, making it possible to see a 
long way, likely for miles into the 
dwelling place of these noble 
actors. 

As we feasted upon this mag- 
nificent barrier, we tried to deter- 



978 

mine how it was constructed and 
the material in it. From the ex- 
terior view it was one solid mass 
without seams. No masonry of 
man could have constructed this 
solid mass, which looked as if 
from nature itself, or even, this 
transparent barrier likely was 
constructed by God through His 
most trusted angels. If the ma- 
terial was composed of mineral, 
no mineral of this transparency 
has ever been found upon the 
earth by man. If so he has never 
applied it to his use in the con- 
struction of buildings. The sub- 
stance was so clear that you could 
not see it while standing close to 
the wall. You were compelled to 
stand far enough from it to see 
the reflection before you could ob- 
serve the barrier. Not a line or 
defect could be found by us after 



au 

a long and diligent search for 
seams and defects. We found 
that no one could pass the barrier, 
no one could scale it. The condi- 
tion of the wall was impregnable. 
We determined that some way 
had been provided wherein to 
pass, so we started out to find an 
opening or get information from 
some one who could direct us the 
right way to follow. After a long 
journey along the barrier and ob- 
serving the endless views of the 
great deeds of mankind, we came 
to a great gateway under a gi- 
gantic arch. The arch seemed to 
be constructed out of a very pure 
kind of Alabaster, unusually 
white; the steps were out of the 
same material. The great gates 
looked as if constructed from 
Amethyst. They were standing 
open and seemed to give us a 



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warm welcome. We climbed the 
beautiful steps and entered a 
great foyer, which seemed to be 
about a thousand feet deep. The 
floor was spotless white, the ceil- 
ing was an arched canopy very 
high above the floor and seemed 
to be covered with the richest 
gems ever seen by man, reflecting 
all colors upon the floor, the light 
passing through them and com- 
ing from some place overhead. 
The panels upon the walls were 
of a rich light green color. They 
were of that rich soft green we 
see in the springtime. It con- 
sisted of some rare substance un- 
known to either of us. One felt as 
if he was entering the springtime 
of life; the soft mellow shades 
cast throughout the foyer gave 
one the feeling of spring. We 
could find no one to direct us, so 



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we wandered about and examined 
the great panels forming the 
walls, their peculiar color, their 
foliation as given by the act of 
nature, the feathery ornaments 
embossed on the crystalline sub- 
stance traversed throughout the 
entire structure as if constructed 
under nature's art. 

As we approached the side of 
the curving wall opposite the 
great gateway through which we 
had passed, we came to two mas- 
sive columns of some polished 
substance not unlike pure white 
marble. The columns were joined 
together at the top by a great 
cornif orm, giving it the effect of 
a panel or frame on the wall. We 
stopped to examine and as we 
passed to the front, to our aston- 
ishment, the columns formed the 
framework to a great doorway. 



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The great crystal doors stood ajar 
with no obstruction save a 
great black silken rope stretched 
from side to side and hooked to 
the frame at the ends upon two 
hooks. At each side of the door 
were standing two men. I call 
them men not knowing a better 
name for such specimen; men in 
fact are only a very imperfect im- 
itation of these great masters 
standing beside this portal. They 
were without defect and in stat- 
ure towered over me. They were 
robed in black robes of fine and 
soft material. Their heads were 
uncovered except the covering of 
jet black hair provided by nature, 
the eye was large and perfect 
with a kindlyexpression, the high 
forehead, the perfect nose and 
ear, the oval face, all made up the 
grace and bearing of an angel 



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itself. I looked and expected to 
locate their race but I could find 
no resemblance of any race 
known to mankind. They seemed 
to be the finished products of the 
ambitions of all races of men, the 
marks of their freedom from care 
and the influence of degradation 
and sin, no lines upon the face 
that would indicate that they had 
ever entertained unhallowed 
thoughts. If the mind had ever 
been poisoned by sin it did not 
show upon the face or the degra- 
dation had been thoroughly 
washed out of the soul, leaving 
them pure and clean. These men 
could not have been of one dis- 
tinct race of men, without they 
had been born again and by some 
process of nature had become a 
composite man through this 
power, for they undoubtedly pos- 



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sessed many of the strong points 
of all races upon the earth; as you 
study their faces these points un- 
fold to you. The dress seemed to 
be only the emblem of the past 
and not a mark of distinction. I 
conclude that the black must 
mean that we were yet on the 
dark side of life, that we must 
pass this black barrier before we 
come to the light side of life. 

As we approached these mas- 
ters, I had a feeling within my 
breast, a yearning and longing 
like a lost child feels, that if we 
could pass this barrier we would 
be able speedily to return to our 
home, that home of all mankind. 
As we came near the portal one of 
them spoke to us and said in a 
very kindly voice, "We welcome 
you pilgrims upon your return." 
This was all I heard, although I 



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could see that he was talking 
further, I could not hear one word 
more. I moved nearer, hoping to 
hear more but alas it was of no 
avail! I was deaf, deprived of the 
power of hearing, no sound could 
pass my ears. I could see clearly 
and I realized that a discussion 
was going on between them and 
my father over something, I knew 
not what. After a long time the 
parley seemed to be over, one un- 
hooked the heavy black rope from 
the fastening and stepped beside 
his companion and we passed into 
a broad aisle with a sloping floor 
and about ten feet wide. The floor 
where we entered was at its high- 
est point and fell away down the 
long aisle for a distance, I should 
judge, of a thousand feet, falling 
away of easy descent. The long 
gray pavement looked splendid to 



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the eye under the mellow and soft 
light reflected from the golden- 
gray panels which formed the 
walls of the aisle. These walls 
were too high for me to see over 
or discover what was beyond, the 
top of the wall fell away on a line 
parallel with the floor so that it 
was always at one height from 
our position on the floor. The 
panels of golden-gray were not 
only embossed with wonderful de- 
signs running through the mate- 
rial itself, but were also decorated 
by a hanging vine of delicate 
green, the color of young oak 
leaves at the budding in the 
spring, the vines falling all along 
the upper part of the panels the 
entire length. These vines were 
leafed with clusters of leaves 
formed in budlike shape all along 
the long and graceful branches 



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hanging over the wall. My espe- 
cial attention was attracted to 
these leaves of light and delicate 
green gathered in clusters, like a 
full bloom of a rose, and they also 
reminded me of a family gather- 
ing, all performing their duty in 
the home-coming. We walked 
along this long aisle, admiring 
the beauty of the scene. The effect 
upon us was like magic, develop- 
ing the occult powers of nature 
long dormant within us, although 
my father could not make me un- 
derstand a word he uttered. 

As we approached the supposed 
end of the aisle, we found that it 
turned sharply to the right at an 
angle of about forty-five degrees 
and at the place of the turn of the 
aisle we found another obstruc- 
tion across our way, guarded by 
two men very much like the other 



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two except as to dress; they were 
clothed in light gray robes. As 
men they were as perfect in form 
and development in every respect 
as the others and looked as if they 
had taken the same mental test 
required by nature's laws. The 
only difference I noticed in the 
aisle was that the green in the 
panels gave way to a golden- 
white color, all things else were 
the same. My father talked a 
long time with the guards and I 
realized that they were reluctant 
in allowing me to pass, but they 
finally unhooked the loop of the 
gray rope used as a barrier in- 
stead of the black and allowed us 
to pass on our way. We passed 
on and found that our view was 
still confined to the aisle. It was 
a great disappointment to me for 
I had great hopes that we might 



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be able to see the occupants of the 
amphitheatre, for the construc- 
tion even from our position, we 
could see was for the reception of 
great throngs of people. I made 
no doubt but what they were 
massed in great numbers at this 
time for some purpose. My inner 
sensibilities impressed me that on 
this perfect atmospheric condi- 
tion about me, I could feel that 
the air was full of music unex- 
celled in quality. I could see the 
pleasure pass over my father's 
countenance as we proceeded on 
our way. At this point I made a 
discovery. In passing along I 
came in very close contact with 
one of the beautiful green roses 
of the wall, my sense of smell 
gathered the fragrance, no 
aroma will ever equal its frag- 
rance. The aroma filled my whole 



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being with pleasure, especially 
my memory seemed to expand. I 
could remember every act of my 
life clear and distinct. I needed 
no living records on the cloud 
banks to assist me in remember- 
ing. Now I know that these are 
the Green Roses of Memory like- 
ly gathered by the Creator from 
the overhanging walls. The dis- 
covery made me very happy; 
these sweet memories of long ago 
were not forgotten. The turn of 
the aisle came at about the same 
distance as before, except the 
aisle turned to the left at the same 
angle. This time the barrier was 
a silken cord guarded by two 
robed in white. I recognized that 
these were the emblem of purity 
following the gray dawn of life. 
The men were of like kind and 
bearing as before. They stopped 



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us and after a long time per- 
mitted us to pass on our way. I 
was again doomed to disappoint- 
ment; the great paneled wall still 
obstructed our view. The panels 
showed a much deeper shading of 
gold in the coloring with a slight 
tint of white, although the wall 
still retained the beautiful vining 
green rose upon it as a decoration. 
As we looked down this long aisle 
I could see two guards dressed in 
golden robes across the aisle a 
golden chain barred the way. I 
felt that we were coming to the 
golden age of mankind, that 
highly developed stage of life. As 
we slowly approached I felt that 
an epoch was about to occur in my 
life. The soft light increased in 
brightness, the heavens lighted 
up so I could see that this house, 
not made with hands, was covered 



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only by nature. The brilliancy in 
front and beyond the guards 
shone like some Aurora-Borealis 
surrounding the Wisdom of the 
Universe. When we stood before 
the guards my father communi- 
cated with them; all the time I felt 
like one transfixed under the 
beautiful lights, amazed by the 
splendor. 

After a very long time my 
father turned to me and placed 
his mouth to my ear and whis- 
pered to me. I could hear his 
whisper, "You must leave me 
now; your time upon the earth is 
not finished. Take my blessing 
and return my son." He placed 
his hand upon my head and 
handed me his staff. I obeyed and 
turned about. The spectrum 
seemed to blind me. I felt sick at 
heart when I felt the touch of 



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some unseen and kindly hand 
guide me up the aisle. At the 
first turn I looked back and my 
father stood watching me. I then 
was fully satisfied. I quickly 
passed out of the gates; the bal- 
ance of the way I seemed to travel 
like a flash of ligtning. 

Morning light seemed to arouse 
the gunner to the importance of 
action, and the call of duty 
cleared his mind, but the stiff 
limbs refused to perform their 
functions in their numb condi- 
tion. He thought clearly of the 
happenings of the long night; the 
impressions were indelible; his 
partner, the body had failed him. 
Poor limbs must have been over- 
worked; they are now useless. 
Two stretcher men carried him 
through the by-passes of the 
trenches, off the battle field out of 



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danger, thence to a large hospi- 
tal, where he spent weeks in pain 
of the body. When he finally re- 
turned home to learn of his fath- 
er's death on the night of the bat- 
tle, he was not surprised, neither 
was he surprised when handed 
his father's walking stick with 
the message "give this to my 
son." He was told that his father 
talked long to the family of many 
things he had learned in life and 
of their uses and benefits. Final- 
ly he said, "Life is eternal; we live 
forever. To demonstrate this [I 
will perform the last act of this 
life in your presence." He arose 
from the bed on which he was 
resting, walked to the clock on 
the mantel, stopped it at the hour 
of three o'clock A. M., returned to 
the bed and passed into another 
life. 



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The eye root of the mind is am- 
bition's desire for knowledge. It 
is bedded by the Creator and cul- 
tivated by its possessor or lies 
dormant in danger every moment 
of some ungrafting, unhallowed 
branch to sap the strength from 
the divine purpose. When it is 
cultivated to full development, its 
possessor would not allow the 
smallest twig to sustain life for 
one moment at its fountain. Fill 
your churches full of developed 
minds. The gold limb grafted 
below the forks of the mental 
tree consumes the strength from 
the great forks of this tree of life, 
love and wisdom. Both are the 
topmost essence of the mind, both 
can be possessed by all of man- 
kind, created through God, when 
not infected through obnoxious 
channels. 



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The mind is the greatest pos- 
session in this life when it has at- 
tained that high development in- 
tended by the Creator. When we 
think of it as the tree of life and 
its culture we must see that these 
obnoxious sappers, such as hate, 
jealousy, anger, spite, greed, cov- 
etousness or any noxious thought 
which bear fruit of many kinds 
never can live beyond an earthly 
life. Cut away these obnoxious 
sappers and you will find that you 
are at peace even with your sup- 
posed enemies. What matters if 
you do not all see alike the whims, 
dogmas or religious faith of 
others if you have the fruit from 
the unadulterated branch of love, 
blended with the fruit from the 
other branch, wisdom. A falling 
out with others over a vital ques- 
tion only starts the obnoxious 



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mental growth in both and no 
good comes from it. If you hope 
to convince, you must stand out in 
the broad highway of the Creator 
and turn the mental force upon 
your adversary and if you are in 
the right you will succeed. If your 
adversary is in the right you will 
be convinced that he is in a higher 
mental zone and you will receive 
the benefit. Fair and honest 
minds is the divine will. When we 
think of the mind as like the dia- 
mond in its original state, is crude 
and unpolished, we realize that 
through the long ages that the 
workers have been few and that 
many a mental gem has passed 
unpolished and the world never 
knew of its brilliancy, although 
the art is given by the Creator to 
all mankind. It has been very slow 
in developing, largely on account 



HI 

of the fear of starving the body. 
Man is willing to starve for the 
purpose of acquiring wealth, but 
he is reluctant to make the small- 
est sacrifice to acquire the master 
mind. Man as a chemist has been 
willing to go through any sacri- 
fice to master the problems of the 
life of man from a chemical point 
of view. The lives of many men 
have been spent in the laboratory 
in an attempt to solve the prob- 
lems of life through chemistry 
and with a marked degree of suc- 
cess as to the anatomy; while the 
mental workers have been less in 
numbers, it must be admitted 
that they have not kept pace with 
the chemist. The work of the 
laboratory has advanced in the 
line, but has been unable to solve 
successfully many difficult prob- 
lems encountered by mankind, 



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especially as to his control under 
a government. The laboratory 
can not produce explosives that 
will settle disputes between all 
nations formed by men. If the 
velocity of the explosives is in- 
creased you destroy reason; with- 
out reason man is a mere brute 
and only stops through exhaus- 
tion. If stimulated through 
chemical science to retain his nat- 
ural force, under great stress, 
when the limit of power is ex- 
pended the destruction is com- 
plete. For this reason the dis- 
agreements and difficulties be- 
tween mankind can not be set- 
tled through chemical science, it 
takes more than chemical anal- 
ysis of liquids and solids; it takes 
the science known as the mind, 
that unlimited force given by the 
Creator. The mind and the mind 



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alone and when at its highest de- 
velopment can analyze and solve 
the difficulties of man. It was so 
at the beginning and it will al- 
ways be the seat of justice. 

This mental force is not given 
to one man or one set of men; it is 
given to all as a dowry with our 
creation. May the chemist assist 
us to care for this endowment; 
may we guard it and develop it as 
the one thing sacred, the gift of 
our Creator. 

These beautiful thoughts that flow 
Through our minds in waking moments, 

Are they not our friends from 
Source unknown working for our atone- 
ment. 



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